Hello everybody,

As the titel says: it's a different world!

Friday I still had 31 tents occupied, today only 6!!!!

As every season ( as I was used to in Crete as well) suddenly it's over and done with!

From the day that Stef left I have been busy busy busy, every day departures, arrivals. In the meantime also of course time for a chat, a coffee, sometimes dinner with guests, just having a good time. Getting tired, but used to that. Looking forward to have a day off, so I could go to the beach or drive around or just something different than work, work work.

And then: yesterday that day came. It was beautiful weather, in the morning I checked a few more guests out and then........... I could have taken the time for myself, to go to the beach or whatever what. But......... I was too restless. Sitting in front of my tent, considering I could go the beach. Oh, well, let's first have a sandwich and a coffee. Again: shall I go the beach, to the swimming pool? No, first I will lay down for an hour for a little nap. After 20 minutes I gave up, could not sleep.

Again: what's it gonna be? The beach, the swimmingpool?

And guess what: it turned out that I started to pack up the first tents :). I worked until it got dark (around 18.00) and I finished packing up the small inventory in the boxes of 4 tents. Disconnected the gascookers and cleaned them from 6 tents!

By that time I was feeling a bit better, not so restless anymore: the start was made!

Treated myself on a pizza, have been sitting and reading a book a bit and went early to bed.

Today after another check out I went to the garage with my car. My window was not closing anymore and I thought it would be handy to get that fixed before another big rain was coming. At the garage he told me that he had to order a new motor for the electric window (yes Frans you could have worked on that window all day :)). Tomorrow morning the new motor will arrive and then they will fix the window. That will be a luxury to have a window that opens and closes again! Also straight away I ordered a new backlight. After all I am now in Fiat country, no where I will get parts of Fiat cheaper than here!

From the garage I went for shopping to get the materials I need to close down the tents. When I was heading back to the campsite I suddenly followed the road to Ortovero instead of going straight back to C'era una Volta.

Stef, we should have done that together! It is a beautiful road, Ortovero is a nice little town with some bars and a restaurant - which I will try out soon . I was following the road further up to Pieve de Tecco, but then I realised I had not my camera with me. At that point I decided to turn back and go to the campsite and I will save Ortovero and Pieve di Tecco for another time when I will bring my camera.

Back at the campsite for once I sat nice in the sunshine reading my book and really relaxing and enjoying the peace and beauty of the campsite. Tomorrow after getting my car fixed I will start again with packing up the tents, but now my battery is recharged :)

To all the guests of Vacansoleil this season I want to say a big Thank You for making my job a nice, pleasant one! Thanks to all of you I also had a good time while being courier here! Like I said in the beginning of this story: you are all missed and to be honest I feel a bit 'lost in space' at the moment, with all of you gone! You all said thanks to me for my hospitality and service, but I could only do that because you all were so nice to me: inviting me for a chat, a coffee, a glass of wine, a dinner............... Thank you and hope to see you again next season!!!

I will continu to use this site and will keep you posted about the trips I hope I will make in this area later, with some more pictures of course.

Take care, because I care

Ciaooooooooooo for now

Rita