UP HILL....

May 8 – About time to mention the weather. We have been in France now for 49 days. Of course we should have been in Spain by now but that's another story. We have had one day of rain. No seriously, one day. Yesterday. And it only really rained twice, for about 30 minutes each time. There was a blow and we expected a storm. Back in March, with Graham and Jane with us we did have some dull days but that's it. Sunshine, all the rest, all the way. And now it is getting really hot. 28, 29 C and we have seen 33 on the car when left in full sun!

Of course we are sad that our plans had to be altered but what we read tells us that if we had made Barcelona, Zaragossa and north of Madrid we would have been very wet.

Anyway today we drove from Gaillac to Albi and then up to a campsite near Cordes sur Ciel. And it turned out there was a serious hill en route – two arrows! But that has only made us less sure of the diagnosis we had in Millau of our car's troubles. I restricted revs to 2,500 or so and we sailed up at over 40 mph. At one point, inattentive I guess, the revvs passed 3,000 with no problem. Hmmm. We shall see I suppose. But it does aggravate.