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We have bought a new sim card for the phone and I will text the number to y’all before we go.
We have bought two new electric bikes to replace the old ones and they will be a great help.
We have almost sold our Cinquecento on ebay. (It ends tomorrow)
I have almost finished working for the year.
The letting agents have the keys to the manor house.
The countdown begins.
Love and Peace
Mermy and Rosie
I have been unable to log into my wordpress blog for some time now and as such have not been blogging. I actually have been dying to keep up with happenings in the Merlife, but have been unable. I was thinking of switching over to some other blogging software that would let me A. Post entries and B. Post pictures. Not a lot to ask in the scheme of things I think.
Anyhoo, Rosie and I are beavering away, getting ready for the off to forrin. We have only to sell a car and a van and put another squillion quids in the bank and we will be read for the off. I wanted to leave on the 23rd of this month to catch the X-Sail raid in Picardy, but it looks like I will have to give that a miss and just go to the Somme beaches to sail with just Rosie and I. We are planning to spend a couple of weeks sandyachting in France before heading south for the sun.
We are buying new electric bikes to take abroad with us. We wanted to replace our old ones which don’t have a big range and so we are buying two Windsor LPX bikes which will, with pedal assist do 30 miles, which means we can moor the motorhome further from towns and still get about without too much trouble. We also have our Mule trailer which attaches to the bike to do big shopping etc.
Internet and phonage are two areas of concern and we have pretty much settled on the following plan; free WiFi at McD’s in France and a data card for the laptop plus internet cafes in Spain. As for phoning, we are going to use a combination of a sim card for the phone which has no roaming charges and can be our source of incoming and text, and an international calling card that we can use from public phones for a couple of pence a minute to call landlines in the UK.
I shall be texting and emailing folk to get updated phone details before we go so that we have all the numbers we need.
More to come soon
Love and Peace
Rosie and Chris