Dull, cool, fresh and quiet except for the horse whinnying and galloping about outside. We watch two of the vans leave and have a lazy morning, setting off around 11:30. As we are packing up we find one of our purpose made high quality Italian plastic ramps has cracked pushing itself into the hard packed earth. Yer man's brick and plywood don't look so funny now The track out to Lanteuil and the main road is shorter at 1.6 miles, but absolute single track w...

It's overcast this morning and thunder has been rumbling around since dawn, but by the time we leave the sun is shining and it's warming up. We are continuing the tourist route in the book, which takes us back to Arnac Pompadour, where we stop for a little look around. There is an impressive chateau and attractive square, and a big equestrian centre with a race course and eventing courses where we see a couple of horses practicing. The route winds up and down ...

After a few restless days, not to mention last night's pizza and the suitable quantity of wine to help it down, we slept really well and are in no hurry to move. We hear other vans leaving and when we finallt open up there is a goodbye note from Geoff & Basia. This morning the wifi is good soo Nick updates the blog and does a few other internetty bits while Ali walks across to get some photos of Uzech in the sunshine. There's no rush, we're not going far t...

The guard dogs in the camping car works wake us numerous times in the night and then it's daylight and time to return to complete the work. Yannick connects the recharging plant and all goes well this time. Finally we start the engine and he monitors the temperature rising and falling before pronouncing all 'bon et finis'. Ironically we're glad its finished as this morning is cool and overcast and the cab is like a fridge. Another shock to the Visa se...

We are up and away by 09:30, back down the N147 to Limoges industrial zone. 45 minutes later we find Aventure Camping-Cars easily and Ali goes to the office. They seem miffed we weren't there at 09:00 opening time but say they'll look after the two vans they're working on now. At 11:50 a technician comes out and assesses we need the A/C system fluid recharged. They shut for lunch 12:00 to 14:00 so we have to disappear for two hours, so we get some lunch and b...