What did you do ?We had a nice drive along the Costa da Morte today (I'll post some pics in a bit). Even had a nice chat with a Guardia Civil Trafico officer. Such a shame it cost me €40.
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Where Have You Been In Your Van Today?
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Took the van into Cordwallis at Maidenhead today signed up to the All-In plan from VW the whole procedure took 3 hrs (they were short staffed) but at least I now have 2 sevices, 2 mot's, 2 years roadside cover and 2 years Warranty all for £26 per month. Seems a good deal but we will see! how it all pans out!
No, we have binned it for a couple of years as Macron Is being an arse!
If you fancy borrowing our inflatable kayak (3-4 seater) you’re more than welcome to. You’re not far from us so we could meet up
We have now arrived in Santiago De Compestela. We are staying on the As Cancelas site, more or less in the city (2 KM walk to centre of town or a 1€ bus trip). Nice big pitches, and on first impressions, actually not bad. Shame the pool is closed. A big shopping centre very close by, so able to stock up at Carrefour. The onsite bar and restaurant looks OK too.
It is certainly better than the last site anyway. Last night my (mains powered) electrics went off and the van’s electric tripped. Reset it and plugged back into the post but it didn't work so assumed it had tripped in there and the RCD was locked away and needed to be dealt with by staff. I used my neighbours point and everything worked fine until late in the night, the van tripped off again. I blamed the crappy site until we began to get ready for the day and noticed the wife had trapped an extension lead in the working parts of the seat as she set the bed up and it was almost severed. It was shorting on the metal frame!
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It is certainly better than the last site anyway. Last night my (mains powered) electrics went off and the van’s electric tripped. Reset it and plugged back into the post but it didn't work so assumed it had tripped in there and the RCD was locked away and needed to be dealt with by staff. I used my neighbours point and everything worked fine until late in the night, the van tripped off again. I blamed the crappy site until we began to get ready for the day and noticed the wife had trapped an extension lead in the working parts of the seat as she set the bed up and it was almost severed. It was shorting on the metal frame!
Camping As Cancelas by Nigel G, on FlickrTBH, if I had ever stopped a foreign car they'd have been unlucky, a ticket would have been in the too hard to do pile!
Bit tough that......
I thought so too, but hey ho!
That could have been a lot worse! My Mrs did the sane last year when she shut the door while I had a 240v extension running onto the awning. Safe to say we now have a much shorter extension lead now.
No probs! It’s only being stored these days. It’s the Decathlon 3-seat one, if you look it up
This, the police fine, trying to get through a toll with the wrong pass - I love your honesty! Keep a diary and it’ll make a great comedy short as long as things keep going ‘not so smoothly’…
Just booked in for a couple more nights.I was wrong about the cost - it was actually 18 Euros a night (with ACSI/CC ).
@True Romance. Not touring a lot of it - just a Brittany and Normandy with maybe a bit of Belgium on the way home depending on weather and time (which is fairly flexible - the time that is not the weather!).
I signed up with Cornwallis Maidenhead a couple of months ago. All seemed to be OK, but after the inspection, I realised my leisure battery was no longer charging. I opened the bonnet to find they’d disconnected the cable to dc-dc converter from the starter battery and just left it dangling in the engine bay - not impressed!
I’ll be going further afield for servicing
Simon
I went for a virtual day trip to the seaside, had a lovely time, ate lunch in the van, had a stroll along the promenade, took some photos.
It was awesome, there was no traffic jams and the parking right along the sea wall was free all day.
And then I woke up and realised I am still waiting to collect my new (to me) van
It was awesome, there was no traffic jams and the parking right along the sea wall was free all day.
And then I woke up and realised I am still waiting to collect my new (to me) van
As close as we could get to Skoma after wind stopped our trip . Puffins are a jynx we have also has weather cancel our trip to Staffa island and Handa island in the last couple of months.
The blue lagoon wild and windy yesterday.
Bummed you can no longer overnight park here .
Bummed you can no longer overnight park here .
