Monthly Archives: September 2010

We are back to the house hunting bit again and are quite determined to find a good rental. We will keep you posted. In the meantime I am also, together with Arie in Holland, starting to work on the new website. It is starting to get a bit colder here now and we are still … Continue reading »

We got down to Dover docks at exactly 5.30 a.m. and were the last car on to the boat. There is plenty of space at this time of the year. We spent the time having an English breakfast in the restaurant as we sort of figured this would set us up for the long drive … Continue reading »

Today is our last day in UK and as it is Sunday and a supposed day of rest, we all went on the Marsh to a pub known locally as Doris’s. This place is a few hundred years old but is very famous for it’s real ale. Loooooovley. Early to bed, as Joan and I … Continue reading »

The weather has started to get cold and wet now so we have had a couple of quiet days in and apart from that we think that we have bought more than enough to get in to Joan;s little car on the way back. Les and Jill went over to Ashford this afternoon and collected … Continue reading »

Jill and I went off on our own today to do the rounds of the garages, to look at new cars again. Joan did not particularly want to know about cars so just met up with Less at lunchtime in the village. We managed to get test drives and guide prices for trade in etc … Continue reading »

Joan and I had spent a couple of days doing some shopping and in fact today we went in Jill’s car as she wanted to start doing the rounds of the garages to look at the possibility of replacing their 7 year old Astra. It had just passed its MOT but with a few recommendations … Continue reading »

Les and I went off for the day to go to a motorcycle event in Hazelmere, which is North/West of Eastbourne. We stopped off at a bikers cafe for the full English breakfast on the way as the girls did not fancy cooking for us early in the morning. The event was organised, I think, … Continue reading »

Joan and I set off early this morning in the Saab, to collect Joan’s new one, car that is. She wanted a convertible always as she had not forgiven me for selling her Suzuki. Guess this will do nicely. Will post more pics when we get back to France next week. When we left the … Continue reading »

We left at 0500 hours and then had a nightmare journey around the Paris peripherique. There had been two accidents, one a multiple pile-up so we more or less sat still for an hour. In the end we missed our boat time so had to get the following one. Whilst on the docks, we called … Continue reading »

We stayed locally in the Eymet area, out with Cathy, the owner of Eleanor Estates. We had only picked out three properties in her books but even then we have another favourite. This one was right in the middle of a couple of farms who have a reputation for some of the best wines in … Continue reading »