A little Lidl idyll

It's all coming together....

Message from insurers:

We acknowledge with safe receipt your email.

Underwriters have accepted the storage location, Sarabeo SAS (Camping Scarebeo) from 06/12/2015 till 06/02/2016.
The temporary storage will not alter your annual premium, however a fee for the sum of £60.00 shall apply.

We CAN leave Maisy in Sicily over Christmas (Hooray!). Cost of additional cover is almost double what it was last year. (Boo Hiss!)

Send email to the very friendly Angela at Scarabeo:

Dear Angela,

Our insurers have approved cover for storing our motorhome at Camping Scarabeo during December and January (hooray!) We shall arrive at Scarabeo Camping in early December and stay at the campsite for two days before storing our motorhome with you. Our flight from Catania to Manchester is on Saturday 5^th December at 11.15am. What we would like to do is put the motorhome in storage on Friday 4^th December and take the bus from Ragusa to Catania on the Friday. We shall book a hotel in Catania for the Friday night so we are not in a rush to catch the Saturday flight. If your shuttle could take us to Ragusa on the Friday that would be excellent.

We will be returning from Manchester to Catania on Wednesday 3^rd February arriving around midday. We shall arrive back at Camping Scarabeo in the late afternoon to collect our motorhome from storage and stay at the campsite for a few days while we sort ourselves out.

Do you need us to pay in advance for the storage, or are you happy to sort out payment when we arrive?

Please confirm you are happy with the proposed arrangements, Looking forward to meeting you in December,

Best Regards

Pete and Gill Turpie

Jolly reply....

Dear Mr. Turpie,
ok for everything, see you in Decembar.

Best regards

Angela Di Modica

The Tunnel is booked. Brindisi/Patras ferries sorted, Motorhome storage fixed, Manchester/Catania flights confirmed, hotel overnight in Catania all sorted... three weeks to go... we've planned a route, identified stop-offs, the van is in better nick than ever having spent a small fortune sorting glitches over the summer - we are ready to go...

Multi tasking! Peejays Greece Stop-offs and our excel planning sheet...(I am very boring....)

It is true, I am very boring. I entertained myself this morning annotating a Google map with Lidl stores in the Peloponnese, then added in LPG stations from the LPG.eu site just for good measure. Will I ever use it, well maybe, might it be useful to others...perhaps, so here it is (red dots=stores, blue dots=LPG)