Not the world's best day! We had decided to visit a highly-recommended motorhome repair place, about an hour's run in the wrong direction. It was a very lovely drive, though, cross-country, through lovely countryside and loads of pretty villages and so on. But when we got there, nobody was at home - I think it is a sole trader, rather than a dealer. The neighbour said they had gone to Spain for 3 weeks. Wouldn't you have thought they would have put it on Google maps, as other businesses do?
There was nothing for it but to come away. And we drove more cross-country, stopping to buy bread, and then again in a supermarket car park for lunch in the town of Sauveterre! Yes, of course I thought of Fabrice, who wouldn't?! Anyway, I didn't actually need anything as I'd got bread, so didn't go in, and they were the kind of supermarket that has solar-panelled roofs over the parking spaces, so we were in the shade - necessary, as the main skylight has broken. This machine is ten years old, and is showing its age! The bedroom door has also broken again. And then the gas on one of the burners turned itself off and wouldn't stay lit. At which point, I said we would have to call it a holiday and go home, as I couldn't possibly cook on just one burner - fortunately the Swan Whisperer found how to fix it, and has! He now says it isn't working again - I am not prepared to put up with it, so we'll have to come home if we can't get it fixed!
Anyway, this was after we had removed the Satnav's prohibition on toll roads, and driven down the A62 (I think - I slept most of the way) and more minor roads down here to Saint Nicolas de la Gave, which is near Moissac - a town I know and love from a French Exchange here back in 1970! I hope we can fix the gas burner and carry on with the holiday! There is another repair place not far away, so if the SW can't fix it, they might be able to.
But what he has, finally, fixed is the hab door lock! I don't think he knows quite what he did, but all of a sudden it started working. Something to do with a solenoid, whatever that is. Anyway, it's working, which is the main thing - we won't have to barricade it with the steering lock.
Today's photo is of the pollarded trees around the aire. I haven't had a walk today, but I did practice tai chi while the SW was having a leg-stretch.
Supper is ready....
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