On the Road Again!

It's been a frustrating time.  I can't ever put them in my ears in the morning and expect them not to fail  Today the left managed less than an hour before it gave up. Before that the battery level was 80%. The right, which by some miracle also connected to the app showed 80%. I thought I'd try again at 5.05pm. Nothing. The right gives three peeps on the battery check. Neither will connect to the app.

Once i had committed us to a longer trip away to the far south of Spain in February and March, went to see if I could find the channel crossing fares. Another Motorhome Fun member posted that discounted fares for over-60's were available on the DFDS sailing from Newhaven to Dieppe. Previously you had to call 📞  to get it. I checked and got a single fare of £85 for the van and two people. Once i found the right page (!) that automatically takes off the 20% discount, the fare comes down to £72.20 each way! So I booked it. So far I have just paid the deposit with another payment in late January.

So was my medical treatment in the hospital free as we thought on the day when I was didchrged? Was it covered by the GHIC? NO! The GHIC covered the time put in by the doctors and nurses. But not the MRI and blood tests.  I got a bill for what works out at £215! Was it covered by travel insurance? YES & NO! It was covered but with the excess and exclusions if I had claimed I would have only managed to recoup around £25. It wasn't worth it. Check before you go to a French hospital for treatment. 

For some reason this page was misplaced and I have found it again but only with photos on Flickr. The text was all chewed up. The Marbella Arch (Taken in 2003!) Claire in the Parque de la Alameda Sardines for lunch?

All these photos were taken in October 2010 when we were away on holiday in Andalucia.  They were all taken on my Canon EOS 300D. A camera that was cheap from eBay.  It served very well for over three years. I started a Flickr account just for these photos for the "pueblos blancos" with the idea of updating each time we visited one or a new one. Over the years I have forgotten the Flickr password to login and Yahoo have deleted the email account I had to use, so I can't click "forgotten password". I filled in a form on Flickr to explain and let's see what happens.  There must be loads of photo accounts that have no connection to their owner. Instead I had to download a zip file of all 35 photos and save on my laptop.   We return to Andalucía in 2027, and so we might get a chance to add to the photos of these spectacular villages.  And who knows, Flickr might get me access to the Grand Tourer account.

The actual trip to the National Memorial Arboretum is on the November 1st. There's a meet up with the Camper Club bright and early on the Sunday morning.   Then we go in convoy to the NMA.  We have all day to visit the various monuments.  I will have some British Legion crosses with us to place on the memorials to where various Devall and O'Leary veterans will be honoured. William Devall - https://invictamoto.blogspot.com/2020/07/william-devall-rip.html The Motorhome Fun Journal for this trip is here -  Camper Club - The Great Remembrance Convoy