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It’s been seven months since we legged it back<\/a> from the most southerly point in mainland Europe to the UK in four days. What a few months it’s been for us all. It seemed back then like the world was imploding. Supermarket shelves were being emptied and diesel pumps running dry as we headed north. We could see fear in the eyes of the few people we came across, at a campsite reception and on manned toll gates. A few days in isolation after getting home, then the UK also locked down, and we entered a seriously changed world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Our
Our four-day route home from Spain in March 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Arguably we’re not in much better shape now, after a summer hiatus, sadly the virus appears to be back with a vengeance. The weather’s turned too, the cool air and wet weather’s removing the opportunity to sit (distanced) with friends and family in their gardens. We daren’t sit inside with them, and this was recently made illegal by Nottinghamshire entering Tier 2 restrictions. One member of my family recently tested positive, thankfully they’re the youngest amongst us and other than not being able to smell and taste, seem to be getting through it OK. We’ve not seen them (or most other people) for months, so as far as we know, we’re clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve been back and forth over the idea of heading over to Europe for the winter, and needed something to help us decide. The car we’d loaned from Ju’s parents did the job, when it finally failed its MOT and went to the Great Scrapyard in the Sky, prompting the question of whether to buy a car. If we got one and then went, it would be sat around for months, so we decided to delay the purchase, to go abroad and get one when we come back. Decision made, we’d go, but where? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather is a big factor in remaining happy while in a motorhome in the colder months, and although I quite fancied Greece or Sicily, Spain’s southern coast is by far the easiest way to get to the improved climate at lower latitudes, and to get back to the UK again should we need to. After the rough seas on our crossing down to Santander<\/a> earlier this year, Ju was very keen to avoid that route again, but she was the first to suggest it when we finally decided to go to Spain, as we’ll have minimal interaction with people while on board so it felt the safest way. The Bay of Biscay, here we come, be kind to us! We were going to spend a few days camping in Wales near some friends in their rental apartment towards the end of October, but that area of Wales is inaccessible now, so we’ve pulled the ferry forwards and leave next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Plan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The plan is to head straight across the country in a day or two to get to the campsite in Nerja (south of Granada) where we stayed for a month<\/a> earlier this year. We’ll stay there for a while and see what things are like in Spain. We’ve researched local infection rates, guidance and rules but you can’t tell what it’s really like from the media, and we don’t want to be touring around if we don’t feel safe or won’t be welcome. The campsite is popular with folks over-wintering, and there was hardly a space when we were there earlier this year, but still very easy to avoid other people. We’ve heard from someone who stayed on the site a short while ago that it’s very quiet there, and the family who run it aren’t getting as many bookings from their usual repeat guests. Ju’s contacted them and we’ve got a place reserved for a month (it’s \u20ac400 per month). Our thinking is we’ll get down there and stay put, maybe until February or March (yes we’re officially becoming snowbirds this year!). Given the fact the 90 in 180 days Schengen Area restriction will kick in at the start of January 2021, coming back in February would allow us back into Europe for 3 months from May, so we’ll keep that in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nerja,
Nerja, Andalusia, Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Paperwork<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We try not to over-insure ourselves these days, and have an emergency fund instead to cover most ‘unusual’ costs. We are keen to cover any very high potential costs though, healthcare and repatriation in particular. We don’t have any existing conditions and are both fit and well, so we’ve renewed our EHICs (which may not be valid after 31 Dec 2020 although the foreign office website<\/a> currently says they will be valid until we leave Spain), and have decided to buy travel insurance from True Traveller<\/a>. They’ll cover us for the 5 months we might be away, get good reviews<\/a> and will cover countries which the UK FCO says don’t go to. They won’t cover us for COVID-related health treatment though, so that’s a risk we have to accept. Our thinking is that the EHIC would cover us until the end of December and we’ve heard that Andaluc\u00eda is thinking of providing automatic insurance for COVID<\/a> for tourists staying on campsites (and in hotels). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Maintenance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We’ve had the van out and about a couple of times since the full lockdown ended, so it’s not been sat still for the past seven months. We’ve replaced the cracked window<\/a>, and the only other problem we’ve had was the fridge, which refused to work on gas while we were on the North Yorkshire coast. Our lower vent is behind the bumper (curses!!!) and the screws were massively rusty, so fixing it had to wait until we got home. We managed to clear the blockage without removing the bumper<\/a>, but as we’ve never cleaned the area behind the lower vent, the bumper had to come off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new rechargeable drill and bit set was procured and the bumper removed. A few folks had suggested there may be no vent and the fridge would have to come out forwards (arghhhh!!!!), but thankfully our 2001 B544 has a vent. Once removed, the dust of a thousand dusty desert miles was revealed (I’m blaming this off-road misadventure in particular<\/a>), along with rather a lot of rust as the little plastic condensation tank had cracked and leaked onto the refrigerant pipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Re-Assembling
Re-Assembling the Gas Burner on our Motorhome’s 3-Way Fridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After much hoovering, blowing, flue cleaning and Hammeriting, the whole thing was ready for reassembly when the ignitor cable snapped off where it connects to the spark plug. Double curses!!!! For whatever reason it took the spares company a month to get the replacement cable out so we’ve only just been able to complete the repair. The cover for the fridge electrics is off to one side of the vent too, requiring a good half an hour to get the two screws back in, fingertips in the dark type stuff, triple curses!!! I love our van, Hymers seem to be such solid long-term vehicles, but the design decisions for the fridge on our model (and access to the ‘I can just touch them with one fingertip’ headlight bulbs for that matter) are highly questionable. Someone suggested I pop some silicon sealant onto the new bumper screws so they don’t rust away, which I’ve done, so hopefully the removal job will be easier in future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’d also bought a spare fridge burner and replacement jet (a tiny disk with a small hole in it which is more expensive by weight than moondust, probably). The existing one looks serviceable though, and whoever fitted it used silicon to seal\/glue it to the gas pipe, so it didn’t want to unscrew and to avoid damaging anything I left it on. A bottle of water went in the freezer compartment last night and was frozen solid this morning, so we appear to sorted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve also had the van serviced and MOT’d by our usual garage up the road. They’re a great bunch and Norman, who owns the place, is a long-time owner of motorhomes so knows everything there is to know about them, including the need to grease the torsion suspension on the AL-KO chassis. We needed a new windscreen wiper and a rear brake drum\/shoe needed replacing. Other than that we’re ready for action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Zagan
Zagan Getting Fettled At Our Local Garage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bikes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We carry a couple of old (\u00a350 each) mountain bikes on the back of the van. The bike cover had started to come apart and didn’t fare well on the fast drive home, so we’ve got a new one (someone suggested we get a heavy duty moped cover, but we’d already purchased). We’ve also fitted rear panniers to one of the bikes, so we can get heavy groceries back to the van easier (the supermarkets in Nerja are a couple of miles from the campsite, downhill on the way back thankfully).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Internet and Phones<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After being tipped off on a previous blog post<\/a> that Superdrug Mobile<\/a> do an unlimited, no-contract \u00a320 a month SIM with no restrictions abroad, we checked all the small print and then got in touch with them to just double-confirm they didn’t have any caps abroad for a five month trip. The answer (in writing): no, there are no caps. The SIM uses the Three network, so may not roam onto all networks in Spain, and may not allow access to UK-only services like iPlayer without paying for a VPN, but we’ve gone for it and picked one up anyway. If the speed is bad on the campsite, we also have a VOXI SIM (which they ship out for free), which uses Vodafone. Hopefully we’ll be able to enable this while abroad, but if not we also have the Spanish SIMYO SIM we got earlier this year. We’ve a ton of internet SIM cards! Our phones are both on 1pmobile.com<\/a> SIMs, and we don’t have mobile data enabled on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hump<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So, that’s it, the paperwork’s sorted (we’re waiting for a GB sticker to come from eBay!), risks assessed and decided upon, van fettled, ferry booked and packing in progress. We’re experiencing the usual ‘hump’, the difficult part of the leaving process which comes a few days before we go. Heading off means saying ‘bye to our running club colleagues, a wonderful (albeit mostly virtual at the moment) support network over the summer. It also means waving ‘bye to our parents, which is the hardest part. They’re happy for us to go, and we’ve made sure my parents can shop online so don’t need to go into supermarkets, but we still feel guilt. Us sitting in the Cooler all winter probably won’t be very good for our mental health though, so we’ve weighed things up and come to the conclusion we’ll go, and if needs be, come back at any time, either flying or driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know the hump is usually short-lived. Once we’re out on the road, something about being in the van simplifies life, and we feel lighter and freer again, less anxious. I suspect Ju’s hump will extend a little further than mine mind you, as she’s understandably fearful of hours of sea sickness. She’s gotten in touch with Brittany Ferries and got us a cabin in the middle of the ship, to limit the vertical motion. The cabin also has a porthole so she’ll be able to see the horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Packing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our van’s in storage about a mile away, and although it’s pretty secure up there, we don’t like leaving nickable stuff like bikes, TV, laptops and so on while we’re not in there. Ju’s started shipping some stuff up there though, using our packing list from the back of The Motorhome Touring Handbook<\/a> to work out what’s missing as we stripped way more stuff out than usual on our return from Spain. Over the next few days we’ll get Zagan loaded up, and probably head down south a day or two before the ferry. We’re keeping an eye on the news in case Nottinghamshire goes into Tier 3 restrictions, as we’re not sure whether that means we’d be unable to leave the county, and will be ready to go south sooner if needs be, a kind of reversal of the flight north earlier in the year. Strange times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Re-covered
We didn’t maintain our leather chair properly so much of the surface started to peel off. Ju’s obtained some old curtains, jeans and fabric we bought in Morocco, borrowed mum’s sewing machine, and the voila, Cooler has a new chair!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cheers, Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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