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Although, hopefully, we will be off to Switzerland this Friday, we’re definitely going to be heading for Barcelona in about two weeks.

Yeah, I know, sounds like the life of a jet-setter but I can assure you that we’re definitely not in the jet-setting crowd! In fact, we usually end up eating in McDonalds when we’re in Barcelona which doesn’t strike me as being a hangout for the jetset to me.

However, in that this time we know a couple of weeks in advance that we’re going to some research to find a more suitable Barcelona restaurant in advance. If nothing else, I’m sure that we can do a whole lot better than McDonalds with even a few minutes research. Who knows, perhaps we’ll find out which restaurant that the jetset go to and stare in the windows whilst we’re eating our Big Mac 🙂

As you may know we’ve been quietly plugging away with On a Postcard for a few months now but haven’t really done anything to promote it other than mention it here now and again.

Still, I was surprised to find that we were offered the first paid posts on it the other day. Not a spectacular payout to be sure but I was amazed to get anything at all for a blog that was only born on September 1st and which I’ve only started posting regularly to in the last few weeks.

Sadly, I’m a long way from being able to list “professional blogger” as my occupation but it’s yet another (small) step in the right direction.

If you’re looking for a commercial logistics company (ie no residential moves) then look no further.

LGI service the markets in Mexico, USA and Canada with road haulauge including the likes of Mexico heavy hauling with all the specialised trucks that you would expect including vans,  flatbed, stepdeck, double drop, removable gooseneck and other specialized heavy haul trucking.

If you’ve something that you need moved around North America, they’ve all the equipment that you’ll require thus taking away those nagging little worries about non-specialised outfits that just do commercial logistics as a side-line to house moving and just can’t deal with the peculiar things that businesses often need moved.

What is the view from your computer right now? As I type I am looking out across miles of vineyards; the leaves on the vines, having been relieved of their bunches of grapes in the recent harvest, are gradually turning green and gold as Autumn sets in and gives way to Winter.

Beyond those vineyards is the long grey column of the Fenouilledes; a mountain range that goes on seemingly forever that once divided France from it’s long held enemy of Spain. At dusk, as it is now, they are a formidable sight. Especially the sight of Chateau Queribus reaching out from the peak of those mountains into the grey sky above it.

I am sitting in the same place as the Romans sat 2000 years ago when they decided this part of France was a viable option for a campsite…namely because of the fresh water spring that flowed here, and still provides us to this day with a source of water. Of course, they would not have gazed out at Queribus back then…it was not constructed by the Cathars until into the early part of the 12th century but they still would have sat and observed the same row of mountains that I am observing right now. And no doubt pondered on their mystic beauty.

The outline is still the same; Queribus, the vineyards and I are relative newcomers to the scene. It’s good to see that some things never change though.

We’ve decided to put off our Tuesday Trip this week in that we’re hoping to get away to Switzerland for 5 or 6 days from this Friday.

Hoping I say because we are still waiting for a paper from the old insurance company which’ll let us get the car insured. Without that, I don’t know that we’ll be able to go, although if that happens, we will most definitely be making a trip early in the coming week to the old insurance company where we’ll be sitting until the paper is produced.

Snag is that this coming week is the only real time-slot for the Swiss trip as James’ school is on vacation.