Wind, Washing & Waveboards

Bonjour,

Still here in La Franqui and as we are settled into life here it gets quite hard to find stuff to write about for the blog each week. It can be a tough job too getting the blog posted sometimes as you can see from this picture! 

Normally on most sites we have visited they have a row of washing machines for you to use which costs on average €4-5 euros per load but the site we are on at the moment is cheap camping but expensive washing machines at €7 a load which is more than 2 beers in the village. Phil our Irish neighbour has a 240 volt travel/camping washing machine which Julie spotted him using and he very kindly said she could try it out anytime. One day last week she took him up on the offer and she was like a kid with a new toy!  It's not your all singing all dancing machine that you have at home as you have to manually fill and drain it and then you have to repeat the same process for the rinse cycle which meant a few trips for me to the tap with the watering can. There is no spin cycle either so a quick spin round your head, then hang out on the cats cradle which is our washing line and it's job done!! Julie did three loads as it doesn't hold that much but I think after the third one the novelty had worn off thankfully, as I could see her wanting one for the motorhome which would end up in my motorhome garage!!

The wind as always has  been relentless, and we have had more small kite days and lots of fun, some days we could have really done with some smaller kites. There seems to be a pattern here with the wind/weather which we have got used to now.

We have met a really nice Belgium family and Marc is a very keen kiter too so it's nice to catch up on the beach and talk about kiting and life in general. We got onto the subject of waveboards which is something I have always wanted to try. That evening he turned up at our van with a 6 foot directional waveboard and simply said "here try this" so after a beer and a quick tech talk I gladly accepted and a couple of days later in lighter winds I ventured to the beach with it.  Much to Julie's annoyance I took to it like a duck to water and loved it. Marc and his family are off to Spain for 1 week and then returning here and he has kindly said I can keep the board while he is away. So there is definitely not any room in the motorhome garage for a washing machine but I am sure I could squeeze in a wave board!

We bumped into Julie from the bread stall on the beach last weekend so my Julie sat chatting to her and watching the kiters while I was chatting to Marc. The people here are all so friendly and easy going and we have got to know a few of them now which is nice as there's always someone to chat to even though we are quite lazy and don't try speaking French but everyone speaks very good English. 

We told Julie that we had a blog running and had mentioned her and her bread stall in it and said it would be nice to add a picture of both Julie's together.

That's about it again for this week, the wine carafe is now empty so it's time to leave the office and head back to camp/home!

J&J 

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