Flo started
this morning!! WHOOOHOO!!! It doesn’t stress me but I do hold my breath
everytime Chris turns the key!! We've
been listening to podcasts by Jarrod Cooper, Dave Russell and Richard Taylor and Chris' old Friend Paul Hopkins these last few days. They’ve preached on
believing in the supernatural, expecting good things and the fact that God wants good things for us – he wants us
to enjoy our holiday and as we learn to trust in Him and be grateful for every
extra blessing we have in Flo!! AMEN!
It’s another
misty start, we got up and drove to the Carrefour at Brive – it’s one of the
massive ones so we took our time. We
drove northeast heading for the Auvergne; it is one of the few places that I
have researched as a good place to visit because of it’s 110 volcanoes in a
30km stretch. We again decided to take
the toll roads so it would be less strain on Flo – it was a good drive until we
got to the toll booth which was unmanned, when we put our credit card in it
wouldn’t accept it! As Flo is left hand
drive Chris was having to do all the tickets and difficult gear changes at the
same time so this was particularly stressful – he ended up putting notes and
thankfully it was fine!
We drove to an
aire in a village called Plaugnat which was at the foot of the Plaugnat
volcano. This was one of the first times
when the aire looked nicer in the book than reality – we chose it because it
was grassy but in reality it was a steep grassy bank that was heavily wooded so
no good for the kids to play on. It
wasn’t great but it was only 20 minutes from the Volcania science museum which
we really want to visit. The altitude
here is really high and as such the clouds are really low and the temperature
has dropped considerably. We walked into the village but there wasn’t really
anything, looked like it had war damage and then had been rebuilt 60s style. We
all had to go inside for the evening as it had gotten really cold compared to
other nights.
We had been fortunate to have had a clear drive earlier as we were able to see the outline of the big volcanoes including the huge crater on Puy de Dome and the Volvic mountain which was amazing to see.
We drove to an
aire in a village called Plaugnat which was at the foot of the Plaugnat
volcano. This was one of the first times
when the aire looked nicer in the book than reality – we chose it because it
was grassy but in reality it was a steep grassy bank that was heavily wooded so
no good for the kids to play on. It
wasn’t great but it was only 20 minutes from the Volcania science museum which
we really want to visit. The altitude
here is really high and as such the clouds are really low and the temperature
has dropped considerably. We walked into the village but there wasn’t really
anything, looked like it had war damage and then had been rebuilt 60s style. We
all had to go inside for the evening as it had gotten really cold compared to
other nights. We had been fortunate to have had a clear drive earlier as we were able to see the outline of the big volcanoes including the huge crater on Puy de Dome and the Volvic mountain which was amazing to see.
