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Lowering Our Expectations - Part Three (opens the original)
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After seven nights beside the lake in Saint-Pardoux, it was time to take down the tent and try, once again, to squash all of our belongings into the Citroën Berlingo and drive the five hours to our next campsite on Île de Ré.<img alt="" class="sizing
Lowering Our Expectations - Part Two (opens the original)
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After a night in a budget hotel in Rennes, and another five hours of driving, we finally arrived at the first campsite of our two-week French holiday.It was a quiet site on the shore of Lac de Saint-Pardoux, slap bang in the middle of France.After the ordeal in the build-up to the trip, it felt wonderful to have arrived and to have no real plans for the week.There was just the small matter of getting everything out of the car.The boot was still locked from the outside, so we had to unpack the en
Lowering Our Expectations (opens the original)
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Nearly two months ago, our van stopped working. Its computer and gear shifter were having relationship issues and no longer communicated with each other.I phoned every garage within an hour of home. Nobody wanted anything to do with it. They were either fully booked, understaffed or simply didn’t like the sound of the problem. The earliest anyone could look at it was the middle of September.So, with the help of Google and ChatGPT, I decided to try to fix it myself.‘We’ became fairly confident th
The First Day Is Always the Worst - Part Six (opens the original)
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The Tour de France had passed, the crowds were beginning to disperse, and Leo and I were a third of the way up the eastern side of the Col du Tourmalet.It had been an incredible day.But ours wasn’t over.We were still more than 30 miles from our flat in Argelès-Gazost, with a ridiculous amount of Tour de France merchandise stuffed into our bags. Read more
The First Day Is Always the Worst - Part Five (opens the original)
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As a family of five the previous year, we’d done pretty well with our haul from the Tour de France’s promotional ‘caravan’. (See I Love it When La Plagne Comes Together)As well as matching E Leclerc, Skoda and Lidl-Trek T-shirts, we acquired mini packs of Haribo, a baseball cap, a keyring, a pen, a French flag and a pack of salamis.But we were hindered by an extremely athletic elderly man in front of us, who seemed to effortlessly pluck items out of the air as t
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