Balnamore

A very early alarm as we have to get to the Fiat Professional garage in Mallusk , on the other side of Belfast, by 9 am. We did battle with the Belfast rush hour traffic and got to our destination with a minute to spare! We left the van to be check whilst we went to The Bothy for a very tasty breakfast, I had sourdough toast, pouched eggs and bacon and Tony had a pancake stack - reduced eating starts tomorrow!!!! We also took advantage of the free Wi-Fi.

We returned to the garage after 2 hours and were told there was a problem with one of the sensors that checks on the particulates in the exhaust but unfortunately there were no replacement sensor available in Ireland and were scarce elsewhere. They said we were ok to continue our travels but regens would not be complete and the light might come on again and we either had to call Fiat Camper Assist out again to correct it or Tony has found a wizard wheeze on the internet to do the same thing to reset it (didn’t tell the Fiat man) but we needed to call Fiat customer services and our Southampton garage to get it fixed when we came home. We called Fiat Customer Service who were in Albania!, then Adams Moray and the van is booked in for the day after we return and they hope they will have sensors in by them - fingers crossed.

We were ready to go on our way by midday. We had a shopping stop at Tesco’s in Ballymoney before arriving at the site which is by the river and has a small marina. Another sunshine and showers day and during a sunshine moment we went for a walk along the river.

After supper we had a birthday call to Gemma with lots of chat from Max too.

It is now 9.25 pm but still daylight and have another early start tomorrow as going on a cycling adventure!Read more