Day seven in Merry Old England

We have been very busy since we arrived here and finally have found some time to blog.

We arrived at Heathrow on time on Thursday, 18^th April after an uneventful and largely sleepless flight.  Mike went through immigration quite quickly with his UK passport while I queued for half an hour or more before being welcomed into the country by a cheerful and friendly Englishman.  Another queue was endured at the Hertz office…and we were eventually on our way west on the M4 to Bristol, a left turn onto the M5 and  south to Bridgwater, then on to Stogursey and a warm welcome from our friends Marion & Mike.  A happy afternoon was spent catching up, an early dinner with a warm, comfortable bed to follow and we were both asleep by 7pm. 

The next day was a slow one, didn’t do very much at all until the evening when the four of us went to dinner at a Turkish restaurant in Bridgwater (yum!) and we were pleasantly surprised when Sally & Steve arrived to join us..  A most enjoyable evening ensued, with an excellent meal, a few drinks and good company.

Since then we have found and bought our motorhome,  a lot more quickly than we expected  to….saw some possibles advertised on the internet, arranged  to view a few, drove to Plymouth on Monday, liked what we saw, agreed  that we’d be hard pushed to find better at the price, so bought it!  That is, we’ve put down a deposit and are now waiting for the balance to be transferred and all paperwork to be finalised. It has already been named "Boris" due to it having a sticker on the back saying "Becker".

It is a 2000 model Hymer left hand drive, based on a Fiat 2.8 turbo diesel and is 5.45 meters long and has done 99,000 Km's.

It has a drop down double bed over the drivers seat and a single bed down one side.
The price was within our budget so all is good.

It has MOT (annual roadworthy inspection) until October; which is good for us. We have to now pay road tax (rego) and arrange insurance.

We now know the paper trail required on how to do the transfer, so we are hoping all goes smoothly.

We are now transferring the money over and all being well we should be off next week.

Started planning our route and which ferry to get to France.

In the meantime, we’ll continue enjoying the company of M & M who are spoiling us with their hospitality, good food and helpful information.

The weather in the last six days has been at various times, raining, windy, cold, really cold, (brrrrr), sunny and warm with blue, cloudless skies.  After the long, wet winter, the bare trees are beginning to don their summer foliage and the spring flowers are starting to bloom.  It’s a lovely part of the country here in Somerset and we feel quite at home.