Mark A
Established Member
Hi,
We took the ferry over to Normandy last Sunday to see the D-Day beaches, Bayeux etc, then drove down to Versailles for the night. While driving north to Amiens on Friday, the van (the infamous Scudo) lost power with a jolt and coasted to a stop on the hard shoulder. In his ineffable wisdom, my father decided to not take out AA European breakdown cover for an extra £75 without telling us, and the recovery to Amiens has already cost over double that. We were told that the garage the van was taken to can't look at it until tomorrow, so we're stuck in this godawful place for at least another day.
The biggest problem is the language barrier - we can order coffees and buy baguettes okay enough but can't talk technical stuff with the mechanics, so its inevitable that we'll be ripped off. The recovery was bad enough!
When we get the diagnosis hopefully one of you can confirm it?
Plus our cat had a suspected stroke on Friday! Why does it always happen to us? :x
Thanks in advance,
Mark
We took the ferry over to Normandy last Sunday to see the D-Day beaches, Bayeux etc, then drove down to Versailles for the night. While driving north to Amiens on Friday, the van (the infamous Scudo) lost power with a jolt and coasted to a stop on the hard shoulder. In his ineffable wisdom, my father decided to not take out AA European breakdown cover for an extra £75 without telling us, and the recovery to Amiens has already cost over double that. We were told that the garage the van was taken to can't look at it until tomorrow, so we're stuck in this godawful place for at least another day.
The biggest problem is the language barrier - we can order coffees and buy baguettes okay enough but can't talk technical stuff with the mechanics, so its inevitable that we'll be ripped off. The recovery was bad enough!
When we get the diagnosis hopefully one of you can confirm it?
Plus our cat had a suspected stroke on Friday! Why does it always happen to us? :x
Thanks in advance,
Mark