An Age of Magic

Do some people plan their trip at all…?

On our drive back from France one thing we noticed was the number of vehicles that were broken down and requiring roadside assistance alng the way. Even crazier was the fact that a fair percentage of them were caravans and rv’s owned by northern Europeans.

It must be incredibly expensive to get such vehicles towed and especially when you are in France and you actually live in Holland or Denmark; have these people never heard of insurance or an rv extended warranty…? one particularly sorry looking man had a rather fed up looking wife, four kids and a dog all sitting on the roadside on a very hot day.

And there was not a tow truck in sight.

Popularity: 25% [?]

Back in the land of the living!

That’s what I always said whenever we got the chance to leave France for a while, i.e holidays, and now we have finally made the last move and relocated back to where we came from. Packing up for the last move home was a week-long affair of niggling worries, tiny disagreements about where things would go in the trailer and three kids getting increasingly hyper-excited about the whole thing.

Now we are back having survived it all and I have seen a loss of half a stone over the last two months which has me happy – the sun, hot weather, hard work and sweating were the only diet supplements that applied to me. All I have to do now is keep it off and follow it up with another half a stone!

Popularity: 25% [?]

Helping those chicks fly the nest

There is no better way for your kids to find out that they definitely DO know everything and that is for them to move out, pay their own bills and run their own lives. Of course many discover that reality is too tough and isn’t Mum’s place so much more comfortable…? of course it is.

My son has just completed a major long distance moving job and has moved from France to Germany to set up house with his fiancee; he is having the time of his life but, oh boy, have some things come at a shock for him. The cost of things for a start…food, internet connections, telephone lines, health insurance. The list goes on.

I have to admit I do help them out as I think all parents should; young couples are up against enough obstacles these days and I want to know that my son and my future daughter-in-law are not struggling too much.

Popularity: 49% [?]