Days 9-13 : On the road at last

Our lack of blogging since day 8 is good news, in the sense that we are now finally on the road. I (James) went up to West Lancashire on the train to pick up the motorhome and then drove it back down to Guildford. Since then I've been trying to get to grips with what is essentially one enormous gadget. Saturday morning was spent wrestling with water tanks, pumps and blown fuses and finally at lunch time I did what I should have done at the start of the day and RTFM (Renseignements Technique qu'il Faut Maitriser ... if you were wondering). Following the documentation step by step IKEA furniture fashion got everything up and running and so on Saturday evening we all slept in the motorhome ... or well in any case we spent various periods of night in there. The last two days have been an uphill packing marathon as we took the contents of the dozen or so packing boxes, plus suitcases, and various other bags that made their way over from France, unpacked every