And more expense!

Now we have a new noise coming from the van. Investigations - badly bent suspension arm, due to the knock we took. €353. The only good thing to come out of it was finding excellent and friendly service locally.  Lovely friendly team of guys who didn't seem to mind dealing with people who largely spoke gibberish. Fortunately we have adopted a common French attitude towards their vehicles, which perhaps has come about due to the incredibly narrow streets in many villages, which is simply to shrug their shoulders at scrapes and dents - c'est la vie.  We are now proudly Gallically dented and scraped - and out of pocket too.