Happiness is ...

I didn't know whether I would be updating my blog or not today and I finished last night's by suggesting that I would be writing today in praise of the Land Rover Freelander 2.  Well I'm going to save that for another day and do you know why?  Because the sun's been radiating its warmth on us all day and at one point today the temperature touched thirty degrees.  As Fred Flintstone would say, "yabba dabba dooooooooo."

We have just had our first bbq of the holiday and as I write this we are consuming a chilled bottle of Sauvignon Blanc in the warm evening air.  It's a French one as well and cost us €3.  Outrageous.

If any of you want to take the time to check, the forecast for this area for the next week is very settled and so we feel vindicated in making the move West.  Our neighbours on the opposite pitch are from Austria and they reflected how it had been raining in Salzburg for three weeks continuous and that we had been exceptionally lucky to get the half day that we did to do some sightseeing in the dry!

We are actually sitting in a site at La Colle-sur-Loupe which is approximately 7km from the Med.  It's a lovely site but with one major drawback.  Our pitch is surrounded by trees which don't allow us to pick up the Astra satellite and watch the Bake Off and Who Do You Think You Are?  I have asked for a reduction but their reply was "what is the Bake Off?"

Anyway happiness prevails and I have attached two photos tonight.  One is of our bbq - jerk chicken and pork sausages. The other is of an outfit that pulled onto the site at Lake Garda the day before we left. Now for those of you who profess to have motorhomes, I am afraid they are just cheap imitations. The thing that swung it for us was when he pulled it forward slightly onto the next pitch, opened the tail gate and slowly released his Smart car!  So over the top but we and indeed the whole site were very impressed.