Well, as there are massive strikes all over France today our train tickets to go down to Catalunya were worthless. Fortunately we get a full refund. Also fortunately, my amazing sister who we just spent a couple of wonderful days with in Paris, knew about an app that let's you hook up with cars that need to be moved, so we're in a campervan for the night!!!!
It has not been entirely flawless, in part because we aren't properly renting the van anf in part cause its not really fully equipped. But still very cool, and as it costs 1 euro to rent it (plus gas and any tolls), it's pretty cheap, and you can cook, which is very nice. Difficulties? We couldn't grt into a parking lot to get the man a coffee cause we're too tall - I can stand up inside which is sweet sweet sweet, so we had to park down the road and walk back 20yards. No biggie.
The man has saved the day twice over, first we had some trouble getting the stove to light, but he got it going!!!!!! Pasta with Canned cassoulet as a sauce. Very tasty. The other problem he solved was potentially more serious. We're in a municipale campground, which asks you to pay 10cents an hour. Not exorbitant, but as a result you need to check in and out. We dutifully check in, get the little ticket with the code to get out and it tells us to put it in the front window. Ok!!! I tuck it up there and it disappears, like it's been sucked down vlby some kind of sea creature, into a finger wide gap between the glass of the windscreen and the top of the dash.
I mean, what the absolute f#ck. Who on earth désignés That into a car. Well, we now know how to open up the hood, and we've closely examined inside the glove compartment, we've inspected the entire passenger side footwell and unscrewed part of the panel on the top. Finally, in desperation, cause we can't leave tomorrow without this ticket, the man just randomly blew down the gap in the hopes that something might happen, when low and behold, out it pops!!!!!!
What we couldn't figure out is how to make the Lower bunk into a proper bunk. So, it's kinda pulled up one side and I'll have to sleep on it diagonally, but the man's driving tomorrow, so he gets the better long enough, flatter upper bunk. I'm just the Google interpreter.
Its an adventure!!!!
2 comments:
Sounds like great fun, especially since you (he) recovered that precious ticket. I think that's the meaning of that old saying, "It's better to be lucky than good."
Love hearing your adventures!
Honestly? The man can solve almost anything. Lucky 🍀 lucky!!!
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