Les Riceys - a tad chilly!

Started the day with John on a lengthy phone session with Lloyd's AGAIN, still unresolved issues every time he tries to make an online or card payment. Fingers crossed.

Foggy drive south through Champagne Country with intensive vine farming. Plus some arable plains with HUGE mounds of swedes, presumably for animal feed.

Sunday tomorrow and everything closes, so we filled up with provisions and diesel from a Carrefour. €40 (£34.38) worth of food, pretty much on a par with UK Sainsburrys. Diesel was €1.74 (£1.50), also similar to UK. Currently on a quiet, cross-shaped (for 4 vans) Aire just north of Dijon. Slightly unfortunate that there are cockerels next to us.

Keeping fingers crossed re batteries. A bit of afternoon sunshine on the solar panels helped.

Heading for warmer climes but not achieved yet! Highs and lows around 9pm today:

Here 2°/-1° (!)
Nice 9°/6°
Rome 9°/2°
Narberth10°/9°
Kirkby Lonsdale 11°/8°

Hmmm, looks like we maybe should head for Spain instead of Italy (or maybe Kirkby Lonsdale even!). 😂

I can't get over how surprisingly quiet the towns here have been. John reckons they don't do Christmas consumerism like the Brits.

Tomorrow, I'm looking forward to exploring this beautiful ancient town called Les Riceys. I can imagine it's used for film sets, very unspoilt. Even the decorations blend in wellRead more