This years Epic Summer trip

[barryd]

Top tip for a cold refreshing Alpine shower when you were feckin stupid enough to end up in the fires of hell in a motorhome in August in the south of France in a heatwave. Its no good having a normal shower as if your stupid British van has external tanks by the time you have driven a hundred miles over melting tarmac the water is boiling hot. This is what you do. Take your 25 litre carrier preferably on your scooter to a freezing cold alpine spring tap. Fill it twice and take it back to the van, lug the fecker inside getting even sweatier and grumpier then go and get another one for good measure (50 litres is what you need when you are in the fires of hell). Then quickly get your kit off and jump in the shower and let it rip for at least ten minutes. Be careful at this point not to scream too loudly so the fellow Aire users who will of course have parked six inches from the side of your van panic and call the Gendarmes / Loony bin / Ambulance.

Its torturous but everything about motorhoming in the fires of hell is but you will feel wonderful for at least 20 minutes.

 

[runnach]

This is where you are going wrong, Barry. Each day on your drive to gain altitude, each day you get closer to the

You need to swap the scooter for a mini submersible submarine

Bea’s mum on the phone earlier, 43c near Poitiers

 

[yeoblade]

My next fridge is going to have usb charging points in it.

I'm taking it you are cooling phone in fridge and want to charge it?

 

[mark61]

I'm taking it you are cooling phone in fridge and want to charge it?

Tomtom has spent half the day in the fridge. Next stop is the bin.
But yes, bunged phone in fridge for 5 minutes, it was charging but slowly. 5 minutes in fridge and it charged at least for times faster.

 

[barryd]

This is where you are going wrong, Barry. Each day on your drive to gain altitude, each day you get closer to the

You need to swap the scooter for a mini submersible submarine

Bea’s mum on the phone earlier, 43c near Poitiers

Its bloody lovely here now. Everyone has gone inside as its really dropped. Now we have the battle of the windows as Michelle feels the cold more than me.

Three days of driving pretty much across the bottom end of France, 500 miles or whatever and finally found the "Cool". Absolutely bonkers. I'm never doing it again.

 

[Robmac]

Its bloody lovely here now. Everyone has gone inside as its really dropped. Now we have the battle of the windows as Michelle feels the cold more than me.

Three days of driving pretty much across the bottom end of France, 500 miles or whatever and finally found the "Cool". Absolutely bonkers. I'm never doing it again.

It's supposed to be 32° here tomorrow Barry and that's too hot for me.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

It got up to 24c in the house this afto.

 

[Robmac]

It's a horrible, muggy 21 here now outside.

 

[barryd]

Lovely and cool night last night and cool this morning also. Even slept with all the windows shut. Finally! Supposed to get warm later but nowhere near as bad.

The good thing about being surrounded by 10000ft mountains also is the sun disappears a bit earlier and it's only just hit the roof of the van now at nearly 9am.

Not doing much today. I actually have a couple of hours of work to do this morning back in the UK.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Feck, he's got a bloody Helichopper on the van roof now.

 

[merl]

Barry, Re your bike issue. I had exactly the same problem with the fuel pump on a roller (not a Rolls Royce, a tarmac roller) It wouldn't start when hot due to a fuel.pump issue. I used some freezing spray on it to chill it down, worked well and fast, don't know if something like this would be good to carry with you in your back pack or somewhere on the bike so you don't get stranded. Be careful, it's extremely cold.
MOTIP® MOT090409 Pro Freezer Electronic Spray 360ml – Tool Empire https://share.google/NOgQp53IIz4Tzzfqs

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Not as cold as the look he'll get if Michelle has to walk for miles on a mountain road.

 

[barryd]

Barry, Re your bike issue. I had exactly the same problem with the fuel pump on a roller (not a Rolls Royce, a tarmac roller) It wouldn't start when hot due to a fuel.pump issue. I used some freezing spray on it to chill it down, worked well and fast, don't know if something like this would be good to carry with you in your back pack or somewhere on the bike so you don't get stranded. Be careful, it's extremely cold.
MOTIP® MOT090409 Pro Freezer Electronic Spray 360ml – Tool Empire https://share.google/NOgQp53IIz4Tzzfqs

Thanks but the pump is in the petrol tank. Covering it in petrol seems to work of course. Only time will tell if and when it gets cooler. Some are saying after Thursday but meteoblue here has it 31 until Sunday. I just don't have any confidence in it at the moment. Getting stranded out here would be a nightmare I would think.

Ill go up the mountain later on it and in the early morning tomorrow we are going to have to go the other way down and just try it. Ill carry some petrol in the top box. I left it running the other day when I filled it at a petrol station. You have to remember to jam the seat though to do that as otherwise you have to turn it off to get at the petrol cap.

 

[merl]

Not as cold as the look he'll get if Michelle has to walk for miles on a mountain road.

Yeh but Barry will make up for her, he'll be nice and warm pushing a bike in 33deg