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From the Hungarian ashes... A gîte is born

From the ashes of the Hungary trip, embers still glowing in the dark, we have decided to go away still. After all leave has been booked at work and by August we’ll need another holiday! Part One - Accommodation To keep the costs down we had a look on a few sites for gîtes, firstly the Gîtes de France site, but hardly anything leaped off the page and said “book me”, or rather to rephrase, nothing leaped of the page and said “book me”, at a price I could afford or wanted to think about paying. Then someone pointed us at another site, Holiday Lets and this led to Holiday Lettings (links at foot of page) and then I spent a few hours over a couple of evenings searching and searching. A small apartment in Collioure on the Mediterranean coast took our fancy, but it was a bit on the expensive side and we “shortlisted” it for later. More searching and even in Spain eventually brought us to a gîte in the Limousin. Good price for a week and available. Like most of the owners on the two websites, ...

Quiet lately!

I've been a bit quiet on the blogger front lately.  To be honest I've not had much chance to get out on the bike, despite us being in the middle of a heat wave in the South-East. Today is I think the 9th continuous day of sunshine. Only a month ago at the pet food run we had rain and sleet as we left the Hein Gericke shop!  I was last to leave the kennels as my phone rang and it was Claire to tell me that my mum had had a heart attack. Everyone cleared off and that has occupied many of my weekends going and visiting etc. It has been so bad that I have even put the GS on SORN for may. If I am not riding it, why tax it?  It's in the garage hooked up to the solar charger. I'll tax it in June when I will be out on it.