Well we have got the travel bug again and as we bought a new tent earlier this year at the Birmingham NEC Caravan and Camping Show we have got the urge to go and use it.
Following a healthy BBQ with some friends last Friday night we have sold our old tent, actually less than one year old , to my niece who lives near Pershore. We delivered it to them on Saturday and helped them to erect it for the first time. We then had a night in Malvern and dinner with my sister. Anyway I digress, back to camping.
So on Sunday when we got back from Malvern we decided to try out our new tent. We are extremely pleased with it and it only took us about one hour to erect, we will do it faster now we understand the best way to erect it. A bit disappointed that there are a couple of stitching errors which should not be there on a new tent but they are not serious and in any case we have no time to change it. So on Friday this week we leave Dover for the sunny shores of Calais and start heading to the Lot Valley but will take our time and only use the main 'RN' Route Nacional and smaller roads and avoid the motorways.
Being of a retired status, the need to get on the Motorway with pedal to the metal is not necessary any more and so we shall swan our way down over a few days, take a few pictures and stop where we want. Should be great. We plan to take our new mode of transport a Toyota Land Cruiser LC5 which appeared on the scene a couple of weeks ago and this will create a lot of extra space for carrying all our camping equipment and my wife's clothes ( and my husbands shoes.) rather that struggle to fit them in the Toyota Supra.
The French diary should start by this weekend for those of you interested to follow the ravings of a retired logistics guy (and his long suffering wife). I promised Jennifer not to take pictures of Trucks and Warehouses and/or sit at an airport taking pictures of my beloved planes but concentrate on the scenery and other places of interest.Written by noelgroves . Link to this entry Notify AOL
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Hi Noel & Jennifer,We were delighted to be amoungst the friends you mentioned at your recent BBQ, and we had a great time, compliments to the chef, the steaks were especially good! Thanks for the hospitality.Good luck with the camping trip, if the current weather is anything to go by we are sure that it will be a lovely time in a super setting of Southern France.Go on Noel sure you will want to play spot the Kuehne + Nagel / ACR truck, should be quite a few about!!!!Have fun......Ant & Tam
