Back from France

We're home again after our foreign adventure.

After spending 10 days in Spain we travelled to Narbonne by train - 9 hours with some moronic "businessman" spending lots of time on the phone, he must have been very important!! Other than that the train journey was enjoyable. Chris and Carol live in the middle of Narbonne so we didn't hire a car until the day before coming home. The day with the car was the windiest day in the region for over 10 years with winds of 158kph, we nearly got stranded. Fortunately Chris knew routes that got us back to their place avoiding the fallen trees and collapsed fences etc..

Well that's it for another year.

We're off again

Nearly time to open, but we are going for 2 weeks tomorrow to see friends in Spain and France. It's good to have friends living abroad, nice cheap holiday after all we have spent back home!!

New boiler

Just had a new condensing boiler fitted. When Billy came to do the GTBS audit he said that we could be wasting money (and energy) with our boiler which must have been 25 years old or more. It has been very reliable, but apparently it was only around 50% - 60% efficient. The new one is guaranteed at 93% and when installed measured 96%. OK, it was a big outlay, but it should pay for itself well before we sell up and move on from The Waverley.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Everybody seems to have had a good time & some have booked for 2009/10 if we do it again. Depends on whether we decide to go away but probably won't until later in January.