Monday, February 26, 2007
Wednesday 10th January
We left and drove north for a few hours to stay near Avignon. We had trouble parking the caravan and an hour later we unhitched and a few people helped us push it into place. This had made up Jon’s mind we needed to get a motor mover that would help us site the caravan in these tricky places. So the following day Jon took the two youngest, happy to sit in the car and watch DVD’s all day, to see if he could arrange the fitting of a motor mover. Max and I meanwhile gave the caravan a thorough spring clean. Jon did an excellent job of research, ordering and technical detail all of which transpired in French.
Jon had spent a tiring day conversing in French with the local dealers, talking to the manufacturers of the caravan and the manufacturers of the motor mover. When he had ordered the motor mover they wanted a hefty deposit, Jon presented our newly acquired European debit card to be told that their card machine was not working and they needed it in cash. Jon duly went to the bank to draw out some money only to have his card swallowed. He had put in my card and was using his pin number, although tempting to say “Doh!” one must remember the stress he was under. When he went into the bank he was told there was nothing they could do until 9am the next morning. He then withdrew lots of money from all the credit cards, ouch expensive!, only to be phoned by all of them enquiring about fraudulent transactions. All in all Jon returned from his day long trial, quite exhausted and fed up, especially as he knew we had to get up early the following day to arrive at the bank for 9am to get back my cash card.
