Caravan Part 2 - On the road

So here we are. Nigel, Zóe and Chris in Nigel's car (and Zóe's car too of course!), Dave, Guy, Chris and Paul in the Chelsea tractor and Ralph lurking somewhere up the road in his big one. Through Orgiva with no mishap (the old man with the baguette and the dog don't count as it was on a Sunday), right at the Pampanéra turn off, quick stop to raise the jockey wheel (!) and onward and upwards.

Nearing the turn off to Helen's house (the new owner) it was decided to let Ralph go in front, up the steep track in front of Dave and the caravan. Just in case the Chelsea tractor didn't make it, Dave could pull off to the side and Ralph drop back and hitch up for the final pull. Although both Dave and Nigel, men with years of experience under their belts, stated confidently that it would be an easy pull with no problems and that Jeni was just being over cautious by asking Ralph to attend.

Dave later claims that it was the fact that he'd had to virtually stop in order to get back round on himself to go up the track and thus, effectively loosing all forward motion (you can see where this is going can't you?!) that had resulted in Ralph having to come to the rescue. It also didn't help that Dave had run over Chris who had jumped out to check the access was OK and walked across the front of the combo as Dave was giving it some wellie! (The group all thought that Chris' t-shirt looked better for the tyre tread pattern running across the chest anyway!). And of course Lyn had to take some photos of the change over didn't she (have you noticed that women all seem to stick together whenever their men folk get it wrong?!).

And to cut a long story short (why change the habit of a lifetime I hear you ask?!) Ralph fairly whistled up the hill, did some sexy reversing into the designated spot, unhitched and wondered what all the fuss had been about! We'll draw a veil over Chris' climb up one of the overhanging olive trees to cut down a stray branch ('No Chris, not that one - that's the one you're sitting on!' and 'What does it mean when your leveling a caravan and the spirit level bubble is over to the right?!) Anyone would have thought we didn't know what we were doing (surely not?!).

So, the caravan's in it's new home. Helen is out buying some new bedding for it as we speak, and the Tijola team are back at their respective abodes. Just another regular day in the sleepy hamlet of Tijola (Cue background music; roll credits ... OK folks, that's a wrap!)