Alex wields his engineering skills

Our first day driving in France went fine, (Alex has driven more miles on the right during the last year than in the UK), although the journey was not without its problems. We realised on route we had mislaid the beam deflectors we had so brilliancy ordered online weeks ago so we made do with the old fashioned method of masking with tape. Alex realised after a while that the netbook and two GPS machines we were running for various GPS reasons off the same cigarette lighter were now running on battery. Thankfully we had looked at the campsite map earlier so we found a suitable and rather nice campsite at L' Isle Adam despite this. When Alex opened up the dashboard we found some soldering on the cigarette lighter wiring had melted but luckily I had bought my gas soldering iron along so we quickly repaired it and decided to only charge the computer while it was off and nothing else is plugged in. We cooked a nice dinner, (after Alex brilliantly fixed the stove which also proved mysteriously but temporarily troublesome), and after this we pleasurably settled down to a G and T and fiddle and bass music practice.

Alex fixing the stove