On the Road Again!

I have a habit of booking the first and last nights away on our trips to cement them in place.  This time I have booked the first only online. It's a place where we have stayed before and it's about two hours down the coast at Cayeux-sur-Mer.  There are now three Camping-Car Park aires in the area and I have chosen the one closest to the ville.  We stayed there the last time in 2024. These get cleared away at the end of summer!! At the moment it's just for the one night. I booked us from 12 noon so we have plenty of time to get there and know we have a space. We actually have three nights to work our way across the the central Normandy coast and the D-Day beaches.

After the heat and hassles of the last long trip to Spain and France, we had fallen out of love with motorhoming, just a little. Apart from a short trip, without Reggie, to Sissinghurst, we have done no trips at all in Malibu Molly. Some vloggers we watch on YouTube expressed the same sentiments about travelling in these heatwaves that western Europe has been having since around mid June. When you have a dog you are often restricted anyway to where you can go and take it/them with you. When you have an old dog, or one that has a few health problems, you have to be even more thoughtful.  The mountains in Spain have been pretty reasonable on the two previous occasions when we have "done" the Picos and Pyrenees . This year one day temperatures came up at 41C. The rest of the time they hovered around 35C to 38C. So this week we saw there was an offer at the Camping and Caravanning Club for £17.50 a night for a grass non eh...

I bought one of these around this time in 2025. So why buy another?  We still only have one dog.  Well, someone at Camping Alegria  in Benicarlo (Spain) got a free one! It was lashing down and the site was flooding a little and we drove off, leaving the anchor plate in the mud. So I bought a new one. Must remember not to drive off and leave this one behind.

Today the miles to empty was down to 80 and so before we go away for a few days, I decided to fill the tank. The bill?  £130.62!!! It's £1.809 per litre.  Looking at the last few fill-ups using the Fuelly app, we can see that in June, in Spain we paid £1.165!!! Rip off Britain added to by Trump's War with Iran.

We don't need these people at our club. Following reports of unsavoury incidents during Saturday’s match, OASF would like to issue this statement.

Yes. I know. I shouldn't have... £22.50...

With it now being 47 days since we had a very light sprinkle of rain, and after the MoT I decided to ride to Dogs. Quite pleasant but still a lot traffic considering it's school holidays. The miles to empty was showing 14 miles. I detoured a little via Tesco and it look 18.12 litres to fill to the top of the tank where the baffle is below the filler cap. It worked out at 52.7 mpg. Down 2.5 on the last fill in November 2025!!!! Once at dog's I parked up. Only five newcomers had arrived this morning. Took no pix. Then as I was getting ready I found this cheeky little fellow.... Even Mr Baloo had turned his back.