Lenny's Looking for Some Sunshine

[Lenny HB]

Lol not the usual dinner for 30 degrees temps!

Found the sausages in the freezer and been fancying it for days, it was comfort food after that drive around Bordeaux.

 

[Lenny HB]

We've just been sitting having a drink watching a poor chap spending more time in the water than on the board. Respect to those with perfect balance.

School of life lesson.... Practice paddle boarding in isolation, not on a crowded beach.

Living a couple of hundred yards from the beach, I felt like giving up after my first attempts at standing up. Different world on a lake or river its so easy by comparison.

 

[DBK]

Found the sausages in the freezer and been fancying it for days, it was comfort food after that drive around Bordeaux.

By coincidence I bought some Saucisse du Toulouse today in the supermarket. It was being sold as a coil, like a Cumberland sausage, but the pre-packed ones were all too big for the two of us. Then I noticed they also had it on the meat counter in a "loose" form and were selling it by the yard so to speak . By using the classic gesture of the angler to show how big the fish was which got away I bought just the right amount by signalling "this much" with my hands.

Later today we drove around Toulouse, which has several ring roads. I wonder which came first, the sausage or the ring roads? On the map the roads like like a giant Toulouse sausage.

 

[Lenny HB]

Had a wander down to the Citadel and the town, its getting a bit warmer 30° today.

Still undecided about having a meal in the Chateau, they will refund two nights on the Aire if we do but means stopping another night. Four courses different wine with each course then I think there is wine tasting after.

 

[Lenny HB]

Restaurant closed tomorrow, found out after talking to someone who was telling me how great the meal was.

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[Lenny HB]

WESTY66 overcooked the jacket potatoes in the TecTower, had to have frozen peas again, the only shop in the village was closed for lunch until 3:30.

 

[JonP]

Don't rub it I, got 'er I doors interested in the 144, I would rather go a bit smaller.

It will help if a smaller one is cheaper!

 

[Minxy]

How about separate double beds Lenny @ 6.41m. You could always have 'date nights' at one end or the other occasionally.

 

[Lenny HB]

How about separate double beds Lenny @ 6.41m. You could always have 'date nights' at one end or the other occasionally.

Garage is too small on the 138 & we both prefer the L shaped kitchen on the 144.

 

[Lenny HB]

Moved on today now on the expensive Aire at La Rochelle, I'm supping beer she is playing with the washing machine.

On the way going through a small town I spotted a Super U with Gazoil at €1.799 so I had some of that.
Cheapest we have seen since crossing the boarder, don't know if its just this area or prices have started to fall.

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[Spriddler]

How about separate double beds Lenny @ 6.41m. You could always have 'date nights' at one end or the other occasionally.

and a length of coconut matting between them to save wearing out the carpet.

 

[Lenny HB]

A butt ugly one for Tam Northernraider .

 

[Northernraider]

A butt ugly one for Tam Northernraider .
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Check how low that's sitting on back . those tyres must be rubbing

 

[Lenny HB]

Check how low that's sitting on back . those tyres must be rubbing

Drove in parked put axle stands under the rear. Windscreen covered in tree sap, leaves all on the wipers, most people couldn't drive a vehicle with a screen like especially in bright sunshine. It looks a wreck.

There is a similarly single bloke two dogs.

 

[Two of usI]

On the way going through a small town I spotted a Super U with Gazoil at €1.799 so I had some of that.
Cheapest we have seen since crossing the boarder, don't know if its just this area or prices have started to fall.

Would that have happened to be in Marans...... no idea why, but that filling station by Super U seems to always be the cheapest we could find......... called in there on our way down last week !!!!

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[Minxy]

Garage is too small on the 138 & we both prefer the L shaped kitchen on the 144.

If you saw how much stuff we get in our garage you wouldn't say that!

 

[Al n Val]

Moved on today now on the expensive Aire at La Rochelle, I'm supping beer she is playing with the washing machine.

On the way going through a small town I spotted a Super U with Gazoil at €1.799 so I had some of that.
Cheapest we have seen since crossing the boarder, don't know if its just this area or prices have started to fall.

hi Lenny

its great looking at your trip and photo's so thank you for the updates, is the price of fuel less a discount or is that what you are paying in the kiosk

Al

 

[Jays2]

Discount in France is already applied at the pump.
Discount in Spain is not, 20 cents per litre on payment, but if you go and purchase in Al Campo, you get another 5 cents off at there pumps, we paid 1.61 on the 10 May 2022, in Gijon.
To check prices I use Fuelflash.eu.

 

[Lenny HB]

Discount in France is already applied at the pump.
Discount in Spain is not, 20 cents per litre on payment, but if you go and purchase in Al Campo, you get another 5 cents off at there pumps, we paid 1.61 on the 10 May 2022, in Gijon.
To check prices I use Fuelflash.eu.

Pay with Mastercard at Cepsa 30 cent discount.

 

[Lenny HB]

Would that have happened to be in Marans...... no idea why, but that filling station by Super U seems to always be the cheapest we could find......... called in there on our way down last week !!!!

It was Mirambeau.

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[Lynne Roy]

Lenny if you pass Piriac sur mer only a couple of vans on the Aires there, but the one at the tennis courts has no ehu yet but they are installing it. Weather been amazing

 

[gus-lopez]

A butt ugly one for Tam Northernraider .
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Looks demountable but also looks heavy on the rear?

 

[Lenny HB]

Heading for Noirmouteir then towards Dieppe, so a bit out of our way.

 

[Lenny HB]

Looks demountable but also looks heavy on the rear?

Could be, I think it may have been stored in a dark corner on the Aire would explane why it's so dirty. Looks like an old municiple site so plenty of space.

 

[Lenny HB]

Sea Trout tonight.

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[scousebird]

Can you walk into La Rochelle from the aire Lenny?

 

[Lenny HB]

Can you walk into La Rochelle from the aire Lenny?

Yes only 2 miles.

 

[Minxy]

Sea Trout tonight.

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Can't be doing with these 'hairy fairy' restaurants who spread the sauce round the edge of the plate and never give enough to actually taste it!

 

[Northernraider]

Can't be doing with these 'hairy fairy' restaurants who spread the sauce round the edge of the plate and never give enough to actually taste it!

Not to mention the washing up . Had he out the sauce on the fish that plate wouldn't need washed.


He's not really an flt ..

 

[JonP]

Drove in parked put axle stands under the rear. Windscreen covered in tree sap, leaves all on the wipers, most people couldn't drive a vehicle with a screen like especially in bright sunshine. It looks a wreck.

There is a similarly single bloke two dogs.

You better lock the doors tonight.

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