Van pick up day of dramas

Decided to do laundry while we had time to spare before we picked up the camper van.

Paul went off to find a Resmed shop to buy a new hose for his apnoea machine. Got back just in time for our Uber pick up. Then the fun times started.

Uber driver can’t find us…tells us to cancel…we say no, we say…we are still waiting…uber makes him come back for us..he looks at our luggage and says no way that’s fitting in his car. He then cancels! Nasty man. Shouldn’t be driving Uber.

Next Uber we order, the man can’t be lovelier! It’s a London cab and we are off to CDG to get the van.

Turn up in a lot of a lot of vans! Omg. Find we aren’t in the right place, but no problem..the right place is a short walk down the road. BUT we have to wait as there are three others in the queue to pick vans up before us. No problem. There is a stack of left behind groceries that I get to pick through for stuff we would need on our trip. Bonus.

Very excited, load all ours bags and off we go. We stop in a little village to get groceries for the trip. Yay!!! Food I can eat.

Best part of the day was driving through beautiful French villages. The countryside is so beautiful, we might lose Kate here. She’s already researching bnbs.

Pull into to our first caravan park and it is gorgeous. Too tired to take photos so sorry.

Then more dramas. We start finding out everything that doesn’t work in the van!!

Can’t turn the stove on. Only one of the three hobs works. No self ignition, no matches, Kate borrows a box from a neighbour. That cost me my punnet of blueberries.

The fridge won’t work on gas, the water in the kitchen sink doesn’t stay on, some of the windows don’t stay open, the fly screens are broken..the list goes on.

So instead of heading further south, we are driving back to Paris to swap vans. Don’t want to be stuck with a dodgy van for 7 weeks.

Oh, lots of fun…Læs mere