Faithful Dublo

What will we do without this faithful little van?!

Everyone, we would like to introduce you Dublo. It's a very good and reliable car/van. This is our main source of transport for the past few months we've been here. It actually belongs to Gilbert (Johan's dad) but since we've been here... hmmmmm, we sort of borrowed the car on a long term basis... Thanks to Gilbert we are able to visit so many places in France.

This is what we do.. We charge the car to the maximum...

2 bicycles (a compulsory item), a bag of clothes for the amount of time we will be away, shoes for all occasions.. food and cooking utensils.. a little gas cylinder, our fold up mattresses and sleeping bags and pillows.. books to read.

Getting ready to sleep...

'What did we do with all our things?'

Well, we chain the 2 bicycles next to the van, we put all the rest of the bags, shoes and whatsoever in the driver's and passenger's seat. Then we lay out the mattresses and VOILA a place for us to sleep!!! MAGIC!

This man has a very important role... He's the one who does ALL the driving. I could try to drive in France but I'm not confident enough to drive on the opposite side of the road and I don't have my driving licence so..... not a good idea since the police are hard workers here.. They do a check up very often..

Johan is holding a very important book, it's a book on "all" the roads in France.. I had to learn how to "read" this book. It was obviously complicated in the beginning but eventually got the hang of it and became the CO-PILOT.. hahahha.. so now, I'm forced to stay awake as I have to see which road we need to take for the next destination.

Another important thing to travel within France is a CREDIT CARD... paying for the highway tolls and petrol.. yikes... those are pretty high expenses here.

So, there you go.. that's how we travel from one end of France to the other.