We left Crete on 15th August. We flew with 2 packed cases. Thank you Lin for taking another suitcase and some olive oil in your motorhome. Corrie travelled overland with a Pet Taxi. She’s used to long driving days and we felt this was preferable to her going in a noisy plane hold. Probably cheaper too, as €680 Chania to Slough.  Collection from Brussles would have been £500! 

We collected Jez and stayed one night at Stonehenge to check all systems go. They weren’t!  Despite paying the service centre / storage place in Andover to check everything worked. They got it all working by mid morning! 

We pretty much based ourselves in Chichester at Woodlands Farm, still £10 pn.  Great friends Mick and Sue and later David and Karen stayed in their motorhomes. Walking, eating and drinking, of course!  We spent time with my Aged Ps and Maddy and Jordan.

A side 2 nights to our holiday rental house in N Devon.  We are selling this as it just doesn’t generate much revenue and is a general pain in the butt. Since putting it on the market, our housekeeper, having assured us, he would continue to offer his services, had some kind of breakdown, and handed in his notice, and his eye went off the ball. He knew we were coming down but omitted leaving us any clean bed linen. Then, he lied about how many sets he had.  Plonker!  Whilst there we appointed a new housekeeper, who so far, is lovely. And we worked super hard on the middle day to clear the large shed. Stuff to the charity shop, most to the dump and some to Maddy’s small spare shed near Farnham. 

Maddy and Jordan got married on 7th September.  It was a fabulous event. So busy chatting we didn’t take any pix of us all dolled up.  Hoping for some in the professional’s pix. J’s suit was a win … charity shop £35!

We house sat the mad menace Kevin the Cocker  whilst MandJ abused our Crete house for 6 nights.  We then left Corrie with them for 3 nights, whilst we went to Dublin. 6 to see 3 of J’s 5 siblings, but the highlight for me was going out on Liam’s rib in Dublin Bay. Calm, so he cranked it up flat out at 45 knots! I then drove it back and right up into centre Dublin, where we alighted!  Awesome way to arrive in the city. 

Back to the farm in Chichester we did our final preparations to set off for our 3 month trip to Morocco.