Hi del
I guess you have finally managed to retrieve your caravan?
Yes, Wishy. Got back at midnight last night. Just wanted to get the warning out before I flopped out.
Not an uneventful trip, however. Went on LDlines overnight thursday. Boat circled outside Le Havre for 4 hours because the French fishermen had blockaded the port in some minor dispute. Eventually got off the boat at 11.15 instead of 7.15. Clogged it going down - cruising at 110-120, getting there (near Perigeux) in 6 hours. Picked up the van and stayed on a nice site in N Dordogne friday and sat nights.
A mile out of the site on sun morning, a tyre on the van blew out, and I didn't notice until I was running on the rim - the van was rock steady, running on a flat at 70!! Got it back to the site on the spare from the car (same diam, same fixing studs, but a lot fatter - tyre was just rubbing the inside of the wheel arch). Then had to wait till mon afternoon to get it fixed - sad really because it was only 33 degrees there. Left tues morn and got back with no more aggro, apart from a very impressive thunder storm overnight in La Sarthe, and it was p*ssing with rain whilst driving home from Pompey.
I'm done with driving for a few days having done 1300 miles since friday.
Del
