Back on the road

I write this from a carpark off the main road near Venice. Yesterday we managed to drive all the way from nice to Venice. I would tell you how long that was but we haven't yet got an Italian sim card so not online. We may have returned to the uk before this blog gets posted, who knows.

Obviously the camping car got fixed. After the last blog and the worries we had, can you guess what was wrong.....a fuse had gone missing! It took the guy in Avis about 5 minutes to get the car back on the road and allay all our fears.

How simple, and how frustrating (underlined if that was possible on the iPad).

We reckon that when we were in the marseille Avis the lady there played around with the fuses and forgot to put one back. How else would one go missing from a cupboard which we don't even use. The other possible scenarios are:

1. Someone broke into the camper can and stole it
2. The fuse self imploded and disappeared entirely
3. Benjamin decided to work out how the electrics in the camper van worked and took it all apart and forgot to put back one little ol' fuse - this could actually be a possibility

I am about to draft a 'dear Avis' letter outlining the problems hour by hour in detail. We lost at least a day of church and museum seeing - the kids were gutted.

So there you have it, 7am in a truck park. Skinner family awake except Mrs S..... And today we head into Venice. Esther was reading, that between November and April it is high tide so bring your wellies........so could be an interesting day.

A few amusing photos for your enjoyment.....

I posted a picture of the sat nav previously with a roundabout we were approaching. Well this one shows how clever our camper car is at times...we are driving in the sea just outside St Tropez..No bridges involved!

We loved this taxi but felt it wasnt quite going to get all the skinner family in..

We waked past this car thinking it was trying to get out of this tight park, in fact as we watched a little longer it was quite clear that she was trying to park up. I now know why vehicles are fitted with bumpers. The bumpers photod here were used extensively.

Benjamin being his hero, Bear Grylls, as he built a shelter on the beach in Antibes. It was totally wind proof but may let in water. Benjamin was able to get fully under his camp!

Naomi contemplating how to attack her rose shaped ice cream...

Benjamin and Naomi are all over art - literally for this sculpture until I read the little placard which said please respect the art and do not climb, I think that was the rough english translation.