We arrived today at the house at Les Moulieres at about 4.30pm, but not without incident. When we were leaving Alconbury yesterday we had a problem with the caravan jockey wheel, but sorted it and then hooked on. Off we went. 200 yards later - going over the hump-back bridge in Alconbury - there was a crash, & Jane said "we've just lost the caravan!". It had come off the tow ball and was now blocking the bridge. The jockey wheel was also smashed. But, apart from that, no harm done.
Anyway, we managed to hook the van back on- this time properly, and thought of a caravan place in St Ives where we might get another jockey wheel. We were in luck because they had one, but the delay meant that we lost our slot on the tunnel crossing. But,OK, we got over an hour later. We had booked to stay overnight at a campsite near Rouen which we couln't find as it was now dark, but did eventually.
We'd arranged with a young gardener across the road from us here in France to reduce the height of a silver birch in our front garden which was threatening some electricity cables. When we arrived earlier we were flabbergasted to find he had decimated ALL of the trees and bushes in the front and the remains of the siver birch now looks like a totem pole.
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