Peter's Hospital Diary

Well, we have arrived in France after an interesting journey yesterday! We arrived at the ferry terminal in good time, but on the way we noticed that the cigarette lighter wasn’t working. Not normally a problem as we don’t smoke, but we were using the socket for the GPS, and we needed that in France.

Anyway, we arrived in France and went off to fill up with fuel (diesel at 70p/litre!!) and at the same time have a look at the socket problem – which I thought was probably a blown fuse! First problem was that the fusebox bore no resemblance to the one in the handbook. However we persevered and took out what we thought was the right fuse – and the radio stopped working! So we put the fuse back – and the radio asked for a code – which we eventually found and re-entered. The fuse hunt went on, and eventually we found the right fuse, which had blown and we changed. We went to move off – and found that none of the instruments worked! We stopped again, and I discovered that I had removed a fuse and replaced it in the wrong place. Once that was sorted out we went off for a long but fairly uneventful trip. The weather was quite good, and on the way we had the roof down on the car and we arrived at Sue and Marks at about 8:30 last night. We would have been there an hour or so earlier, but for the faffing about with the fuse – and a few unexpected detours!

We ate outside last night – pleasantly warm. but it poured down overnight and it was torrential this morning when we went into the local towns of Pesac and St Yrieix. So it was a supermarket run only.

However the house is lovely – the top [photograph is the back of the house with the (covered) pool in the foreground. The bottom photo is the front. There are some more details here on Mark’s website. Restoration is a mammoth job – lots more to do, but an amazing amount accomplished!

And it so good to be on a proper holiday!

Onwards and Upwards!

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