A beautiful morning when we wake. The owner comes to work and Ali goes to ask if we can stay another night. As long as you like is his reply. He tells us he does not like working on Sunday but he has a large shipment to prepare for Tuesday when a truck will take 30 pallets to Montelimar to be carried by barge to Paris. He has 3 or 4 of these consignments a year. We set off with Ali's bike on the way towards Gras. The road climbs to 336m giving a fantastic ...

Some days seen to start badly and go downhill from there, mayby it's the 13th. We slept OK after 1:30 but there is no peaceful lie-in as firecrackers announce fete day to everyone in a 5 mile radius. The first problem is the reversing camera, which worked yesterday, not working today. Reverse light and sensors are OK so it's something more than a fuse. We plan a route toward Valence, but first we have to extricate ourselves from the aire, the town is shut off...