Firstly, Clare wrote a super blog yesterday about what was a fantastic day. For some reason the technology seems to have lost this information. So this easy living life is proving in parts to be actually quite difficult. All the things one takes for granted in home life become a daily issue of let's go and try to achieve this simple task today!
I should be writing about the great trip we completed today, taking a boat from St Denis D'Oleron to La Rochelle, and the lovely day we had there. However, I feel I must put this all into context of the struggles and issues we had today. This should hopefully make you all feel a little better I suppose. So here is a list of today's little issues.
1. Shopping - the day after the end of the French holidays at the big shop was a bit nightmarish!
2. Credit card rejected - the embarrassment of 3 different card failures at the till whilst the nightmarish supermarket queues gathered apace.
3. Getting out of the aforementioned supermarket with a vehicle 7.5 metres long with a huge rear overhang.....the vehicle, not me!
4. Finding somewhere to eat in La Rochelle that would serve us before the boat departed to take us back home.
5. Returning to find that the shopping we had previously bought, was not chilled as I had not turned the fridge on. My faulty completely - Ed!
6. Quite a nice problem at the moment, but if it continues later then it could become an issue. The huge Franco-Japanese family next to us on the municipal campsite. They are having a lovely time, which is great, but we want to sleep in a short while.
So there you go. If you ever have a "they must be having a whale of a time" sort of a moment, then please don't forget that, our food is warm, our vehicle is massive, we can't always eat when we need to, our credit card has had a blip (fine now) and we never know who our neighbours are going to be. Incidentally, I must make a mention of our neighbours we made friends with on the last vineyard. Not a word of English spoken, they knew nothing. So I suppose it was our first proper French conversation beyond making a booking for a site etc. It was a lovely challenge, and they were very helpful to us. Despite the extra concentration needed in a full conversation, we all made it through having gleaned such information as the ladies sister lived in Australia, and that they were on a four month jaunt!
I digress though. A good day has been completed, I'll get Clare to do the positive stuff about it, but I thought I should add some balance to this blog though, some 'real life'.
Ed
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