Perfect Harmony

Perfect Harmony
Moored at Huntingdon

Friday 6 May 2011

6th May '11

A bit of a culture shock today - we went out in the van!! Oh the speed of it! We overtook stuff and everything!

We had to go out to take the van to a repair workshop for them to see if they can do the work on it to get it all together again without bits hanging off it! They appeared to be able to do the job so we came home again and informed the insurance chappie and at some point he will approve the job and eventually the bits will have arrived and the van can be mended. It's just as well we are going to be away for a few weeks as they can get themselves organised so that when we return (hopefully) all will be ready and we can take it in and get it done before our trip back down to the South West - scheduled for the end of June.

Paddy was so excited to be going in the van again - ever since we got to the marina he has been wanting to get back into it each time we walk past! He went straight to it - bless hiim! Once we were in it he was back to his old self of watching the traffic and grinning at us!

While we were out we took the opportunity to get some shopping done which meant that we could do a full shop with lots of tins and heavy stuff without wondering how to carry it home! I have to admit that it was quite nice to do that but I was happy to get back on the water and contemplate a gently 3mph.

It was quite weird to see place names that are linked with canals on the roadsigns - Alrewas and Wychnor belong to our world on the water and shouldn't be just there on the sides of a main road! We went along the canal for some of the journey and then of course because we were going to Tamworth, we also crossed the Coventry canal. We recognised places that we had seen that were about 4 - 5 days sail away and the journey took us about 45 minutes! Quite disorientating!

When we returned to the marina - someone had parked in OUR place - how dare they! We parked behind them to unload the shopping and then John went to move the van - immediately he did the chap in OUR space moved his so a bit later John went out and moved the van back. It's not as petty as it sounds as we needed space to put the bikes on behind the van and the second place didn't allow that - his car can easily fit into lots of other spaces but the van can't. In the next few weeks they are asking for all the motor homes to be parked in a separate compound which is fair enough but in the meantime we are staying put!

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