Where's Bertie? He's in the Aire at Bitche, about 100m away from where he was situated in the adjacent car park yesterday.
Weather: Wall-to-wall sunshine and warm (27 degrees)
One of the benefits of living in a vehicle is that if you don't like your neighbours, you can easily move. We didn't like our neighbours*, so once a space had freed up in the motorhome parking area, we moved into it.
There's nothing else of note to say about the day. We did some work, then we walked to a supermarket for a few supplies (and can report that France is still an expensive place to buy groceries), then we spent the afternoon on the phone. Phone calls, particularly multi-way ones, are best conducted in the middle of nowhere or in town car parks, where we won't be disturbing anyone, so this location wasn't ideal. Our work-around was that we took our deckchairs to a shady spot under a tree, away from all the motorhomes, and used an earbud each so that the only noise was our voices. The only problem was that two hours later we had lost all shade as the sun had moved around, and it was awfully warm in the sun.
We have something more interesting planned for tomorrow.
(*more to the point, with the relative positions of our vans, and the fact that both were British, it looked too much like we were together, and we didn't want to look like we were flouting rules by treating the place like a campsite).
Weather: Wall-to-wall sunshine and warm (27 degrees)
One of the benefits of living in a vehicle is that if you don't like your neighbours, you can easily move. We didn't like our neighbours*, so once a space had freed up in the motorhome parking area, we moved into it.
There's nothing else of note to say about the day. We did some work, then we walked to a supermarket for a few supplies (and can report that France is still an expensive place to buy groceries), then we spent the afternoon on the phone. Phone calls, particularly multi-way ones, are best conducted in the middle of nowhere or in town car parks, where we won't be disturbing anyone, so this location wasn't ideal. Our work-around was that we took our deckchairs to a shady spot under a tree, away from all the motorhomes, and used an earbud each so that the only noise was our voices. The only problem was that two hours later we had lost all shade as the sun had moved around, and it was awfully warm in the sun.
We have something more interesting planned for tomorrow.
It beats the months I spent, many years ago, working in a windowless office. Before we were done we were hugging that lamppost and in full sun.
(*more to the point, with the relative positions of our vans, and the fact that both were British, it looked too much like we were together, and we didn't want to look like we were flouting rules by treating the place like a campsite).
A bit of observation on your photo: I notice Mick favours the ankle straps on his Crocs folded forward as do I. The backless chairs may be part of some illusionist's kit, but I'm not sure how? Are they comfy?
ReplyDeleteWe both almost always wear our crocs as clogs - easy to slip on and we don't tend to go any great distance in them.
DeleteThe chairs do have backs - in between the solid sides at the back is some mesh. All perfectly comfy, except for the head rest, which I always have to move out of the way.