Hi everyone, well weve just tried uploading our blogs again with no luck! we will try and get them on one day this week. hope you all have a nice bonfire night, we will miss the fireworks! we are in masevaux, france at the mo. thanks for your messages, hope you are all well xx

01/09/08HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCY!!!So, the van is fixed. 2570.10 euros later… ouch. We last blogged waiting in the cybercafe in Lucon last Tuesday waiting for the garage to call to say the van was finished. We waited and waited and finally got a call at 2:30 from the breakdown company saying that the garage had found another problem when they stripped the camshaft unit down and it now wasn't going to be finished until the next day (hence the additional 700 euros) an...

Hi everyone, we're making the most of the wi-fi access so thought we'd drop another blog. We're still on the same campsite in Lucon, until tomorrow when (fingers crossed and bumholes pinched) the van will get fixed. We got bus to the beach at Le Tranche sur Mer on Friday as it was a bit of a scorcher. Then we felt like we were really on holiday... (had icecreams n everything), still didn't manage to get rid of our white bits though. Getting itchy feet n...

…continuing from yesterday. Where were we… oh yeah, guts all over the motorway. It was gone 6 and in France you have to use the SOS phones to call the police and they organise their own recovery as recovery vans have to be authorised to go on the motorway so we couldn't call our own breakdown to come out to us. Ouch, here comes an expensive stuffing. Some guy appears that doesn't speak a word of English but just keeps sucking air through his teeth in that &qu...

Sorry weve not blogged sooner but this is the first time weve managed to find an internet caf (or cybercafé). Wehehehehell, what a first week. Le Touquet was lovely but very windy and stormed all night? we headed south last weds with a stopover in change (our first experience at an aire _ very nice), then set off further south again on the thurs only to break down just outside beaupreau. Luckily it was only a nut that had come off the accellerator cable and t...