Peterborough

The view inside:

bikes get to stay inside of course

and  ditto outside:

fat and bold

We had an extremely bizarre experience in a London mini  mart  the day I arrived.  We were waiting to pay and the couple in front were arguing as to who should pay for their purchases with the woman using her card and the man proffering a 20 pound note which lay on the counter for a while so I said, well if neither of you want it, I'm happy to take it.😀  The woman won by paying quickly with her card and they went away.  Then just as we were fishing for cash, the guy returned and said that he just had to pay for something so he paid for our stuff!!!!!!!!!!!  Pity it was less than 5 pounds really;-)  weird..must have missed his meds or something.

The way our itinerary is, there's only 1 time when the car is going to be over full and that is right at the end of the holiday when Alex and I and our 3 bike cases and all our miscellaneous gear are finally making our way to Munich airport.  Currently I have quite a bit of stuff, so I checked to see if the front passenger seat could fold out of the way and it could.  BUT I found I couldn't get it back..it was stuck in the brace position:

I tried every lever in sight and since the manual is in French, I ended up having to find a Citroen dealer to get help.  It was embarrassingly simple.. it was just that the lever was stiff...well that's my excuse anyway.

Losses so far: 2 tubes of XXXX strength mints and 1 ear bud rubber thing...no stereo... listening with 1 ear now.