On the Road Again!

Maybe. Maybe not. I had an email today from the apartment reception and then are happy to let us change the booked dates as they have vacancies. We won't know until after September 17th when Claire has the surgery to know if we need to change.  Fingers crossed that we don't need to move the trip to a date any later in the year. Changing to a later date will mean messing about to get my Arsenal ticket changed as I am currently down on the spreadsheet to go to the game with Liverpool on the 27th October. If the worst comes to the worst I can always move the holiday back a few weeks and I am certain Phil (who I share the ticket with) won't mid attending the Liverpool game instead of me! I can change the P&O dates although it will cost an amendment fee.  But at least the Spanish part of the trip will be saved.

Today I have been looking again at the overnight stops between Calais and Alcossebre. Once again using the page map inside the front cover of the 2020 Big Easy Read Atlas of France and the 12" ruler. Towns are unlikely to have moved much in four years... Accuracy can be checked using Google Maps. Currently I have identified four stops with the last one being the municipal aire at St Cyprien Plage "Flot Bleu". Google Maps put this as 435kms to the apartment. That's the longest day but as we can't check-in until 4pm it shouldn't be a problem. So at the moment I am looking at a first stop at our old friend Camping-Car Park at Formerie. Google shows this to be around 172kms from Calais Port. To vary the route,  and also a TomTom Max suggestion, this time we are away from the N154 and N10.  The next stop looks to be around Beaulieu sur Loire. It's around 302 Kms. I looked at a few around to the south of Clermont Ferrand but there were few sites that appealed. ...

I was looking on the Resort Condominiums International ( RCI.Com ) site to see if there was anything we could drive to and that was pet friendly.   I have owned a timeshare in Tenerife since 1994.  It was very cheap at the time. Of course annual maintenance goes up every year so not using it hurts!  Across Europe there were a few places but as we plan to travel in October that really ruled out Finland and Sweden, although maybe one day we can take Molly the Moho over that way. Purely as I don't know much about the weather there. There were a number of others in Austria and Hungary. One of the Hungarian places I have been before with my ex-partner. We went on our motorcycles and stayed near Heviz and Lake Balaton.  I ruled out Austria as the size of the dog was restricted to 10kg!  Reggie is around 17.5kg. It's another place I have visited quite often especially when I lived in Brno and was only 75 miles or so from Vienna. So that left three p...