Monday 18th June
Photos will follow
NOT RAINING !!!
Another nice RAC man called Tony was on the site at garage
by 9 am as arranged, used all sorts of pumps to extract every last drop of contaminated
fuel from the Volvo, including from reserve tank. Some of this required
removing back seats etc. This is his full time job and he covers the whole of Cornwall
from Plymouth to Lands End and does
between 2-5 jobs a day. Has a 300 litre tank in his van and the contaminated
fuel goes back to a refinery to be re refined into diesel or petrol. On road
again by 10.30am having spent 82gbp to fill the tank completely with diesel again.
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| RAC Fuel patrol |
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| RAC Fuel patrol |
Drove thru very very small lanes to the small ( very small)
and quite isolated village of Kelly and
the St Marys Church and graveyard there-found a gaggle of Cornelius graves but about a century older than the ones was
looking for.
Continued on thru Devon keeping away from motorways and stopped
for lunch at a place called Lynmouth on the coast. Quite a lot of tourists out
and about. Interesting place that was decimeated by a flash flood in the 1950s
and also the place that the people dragged a lifeboat 10 miles over steep hills
to Porlock Bay in 1899, and event re enacted in 1999.
We ( Lyndsay and I plus Sat Nav) got geographically misplaced leaving Lynmouth
and spent ½ hour wending our way thru
even narrower steeper lanes until we emerged on correct road on top of cliffs which are near Exmoor and had beautiful views
across Bristol Channel and over Exmoor.
Onto M5 at Bridgewater, sped along at 70 mph again and were in Cardiff in about 1 ½ hr, staying
in a somewhat faded older hotel –cheap and
reasonably comfortable except for pump in bathroom that kept going on.
Discovered todays problem which is that the Gmail is not
arriving on our iPhone and iPad tho is Ok on netbook but is a nuisance as the “I”
devices both have data cards so we can retrieve email without wifi but netbook doesn’t.
So tomorrow will start with visit to Alamo people re
Insurance for Ireland (where we head tomorrow) and the Apple shop to sort out
Gmail issue.
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