Foreign Perspectives

Our place is right at the junction of a bridge and a long straight stretch of road. Net effect is that, as people cross the bridge, they put the foot down and overtake anything and everything and in the other direction they’ve picked up quite a bit of speed before they reach the bridge so it’s time for some serious braking.

So, we have been waiting for a crash and were very surprised that we’ve been here over two years and only had the first one last night.

Thanks to the positioning of the crash we were pretty confident of seeing several more before the wreckage was taken away but just managed the one.

No photos as we figured that would end up with us being summoned as witnesses but both cars look like writeoffs.

The only other day we came really close to having a car crash was the day that it snowed. Yes, it snows in the south of France! Actually, I do mean “the” day that it snowed as it has only snowed once since we’ve been here but it did manage around 6 inches of snow that day which, of course, the authorities were relatively unprepared for as it’s so rare in this area. We waited and waited for a crash but nothing doing really and only one car managed to end up in the ditch outside our entrance.

We also managed to have our very first double booking. I was expecting this to happen last Summer but we’ve managed to keep on top of the bookings up to now and only fell down last night as we managed to put two Spanish couples down for three nights starting tonight rather than three nights starting last night.

We ended up having to put them in another auberge for the night but they’re back with us for the next two nights and took it all very well as Spaniards do with these things.

Arnold