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[Jacques le foot]

Hi everyone,
Here we are back home safe and sound after our 5 weeks away on the continent. A lovely time we've had...but not without incident!! We had to abandon the idea of going to Portugal, as the first day we were in France the frige/freezer conked (full of meat for the hols ) It was a Saturday morning..and it was a Bank Holiday weekend in France. the only thing to do was sit ourselves on a French campsite (the owner kindly put or meat at the bottom of his ice-cream freezer) and wait till Tues. It was then Thursday before the repair centre could get the part...so Friday before we got away. We decided to do coast to coast, from Biarritz on the atlantic, across the foot hills of the Pyranees, to Narbonne Plage on the Med.
But that wasn't all We had a flat tyre in Lourdes, the filler hose split in Carcosonne, and we sprung a water leak in the Dordogne, from somewhere that kept filling the under floor lockers. Would you believe it??
In the end, we were just laughing! We did have a good time, and found lots of good camperstops...either free, or very cheap. When I've sorted out the photos, I will post them.

Jackie

 

[coventrycraig]

Some of these things are sent to test us!

what was it that went on the fridge?

Dont talk to me about fridges!!!!

Craig

 

[Jacques le foot]

It was the main electronic control box....cost €250 to get replaced, only €44 of that was labour, the rest was the box itself, and France's equivilent to VAT.

 

[watchthis]

Hi everyone,
Here we are back home safe and sound after our 5 weeks away on the continent. A lovely time we've had...but not without incident!! We had to abandon the idea of going to Portugal, as the first day we were in France the frige/freezer conked (full of meat for the hols ) It was a Saturday morning..and it was a Bank Holiday weekend in France. the only thing to do was sit ourselves on a French campsite (the owner kindly put or meat at the bottom of his ice-cream freezer) and wait till Tues. It was then Thursday before the repair centre could get the part...so Friday before we got away. We decided to do coast to coast, from Biarritz on the atlantic, across the foot hills of the Pyranees, to Narbonne Plage on the Med.
But that wasn't all We had a flat tyre in Lourdes, the filler hose split in Carcosonne, and we sprung a water leak in the Dordogne, from somewhere that kept filling the under floor lockers. Would you believe it??
In the end, we were just laughing! We did have a good time, and found lots of good camperstops...either free, or very cheap. When I've sorted out the photos, I will post them.

Jackie

Hello Jackie
Well you did have a bit of a time didn't you
But glad you both got back safe and sound
when you where away did you try the slow cooker?? and did it work??
Bye for now
Freddie

 

[Jacques le foot]

Hi Freddie,
I did, and it did work o.k. Only used it once to do some chicken in a spicy tomato sauce, as it was too hot the rest of the holiday for caserol-type meals. But I know it will be useful in cooler weather. I left it in the polystyrene base that it came in, and sat it in the washing up bowl in the sink (the 12v socket is above the sink). It came supplied with strong elastic bands and grooves in the handles to hold the lid firmly on.
Cheers,

Jackie