hello fm patsywhitehair
May 29th 2008, 1:41 pm
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hello fm patsywhitehair
hi all, dont know if any of you remember me but I left spain in December last year, had to leave my little dog behind, his pet passport wasnt ready well to update you.
Left Uk with my brother a couple of weeks ago, took the shuttle in my car and drove thru france, stayed the night at a lovely chateau and drove the next day to arrive in Biarritz, stayed the night at a nice hotel and so far all was quite enjoyable, next day drove thru (mini, I think) pyrannees and broke down, no probs,covered with AA breakdown, waited 3 hours for a tow. The local police were very good they stood outside our car and moved traffic away fm us. My car was taken to a ford dealer who said my automatic gear box had gone and would cost £2500 and take a week to do as part had to come fm germany. Told garage to keep the car as I had had the car fm new and suppose it was now only worth about £3000m wasnt worth the hassle, we left the car loaded with stuff to take to my friends in spain,but hey ho, what can you do. The AA put us up in a hotel and got a driver and car to take us next morning to bilbao for a flight home, hire car waiting for us at gatwick, good service fm them.
I have had to buy a new car now and we are taking off AGAIN for spain on saturday sooooo keep your fingers crossed everyone for me.
hope to pick up my ginger little dog (reg) on monday and stay a few days before taking off for UK, take care all,pat
moral is........ if driving to europe then take out cover
Left Uk with my brother a couple of weeks ago, took the shuttle in my car and drove thru france, stayed the night at a lovely chateau and drove the next day to arrive in Biarritz, stayed the night at a nice hotel and so far all was quite enjoyable, next day drove thru (mini, I think) pyrannees and broke down, no probs,covered with AA breakdown, waited 3 hours for a tow. The local police were very good they stood outside our car and moved traffic away fm us. My car was taken to a ford dealer who said my automatic gear box had gone and would cost £2500 and take a week to do as part had to come fm germany. Told garage to keep the car as I had had the car fm new and suppose it was now only worth about £3000m wasnt worth the hassle, we left the car loaded with stuff to take to my friends in spain,but hey ho, what can you do. The AA put us up in a hotel and got a driver and car to take us next morning to bilbao for a flight home, hire car waiting for us at gatwick, good service fm them.
I have had to buy a new car now and we are taking off AGAIN for spain on saturday sooooo keep your fingers crossed everyone for me.
hope to pick up my ginger little dog (reg) on monday and stay a few days before taking off for UK, take care all,pat
moral is........ if driving to europe then take out cover
May 29th 2008, 1:45 pm
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Re: hello fm patsywhitehair
hi all, dont know if any of you remember me but I left spain in December last year, had to leave my little dog behind, his pet passport wasnt ready well to update you.
Left Uk with my brother a couple of weeks ago, took the shuttle in my car and drove thru france, stayed the night at a lovely chateau and drove the next day to arrive in Biarritz, stayed the night at a nice hotel and so far all was quite enjoyable, next day drove thru (mini, I think) pyrannees and broke down, no probs,covered with AA breakdown, waited 3 hours for a tow. The local police were very good they stood outside our car and moved traffic away fm us. My car was taken to a ford dealer who said my automatic gear box had gone and would cost £2500 and take a week to do as part had to come fm germany. Told garage to keep the car as I had had the car fm new and suppose it was now only worth about £3000m wasnt worth the hassle, we left the car loaded with stuff to take to my friends in spain,but hey ho, what can you do. The AA put us up in a hotel and got a driver and car to take us next morning to bilbao for a flight home, hire car waiting for us at gatwick, good service fm them.
I have had to buy a new car now and we are taking off AGAIN for spain on saturday sooooo keep your fingers crossed everyone for me.
hope to pick up my ginger little dog (reg) on monday and stay a few days before taking off for UK, take care all,pat
moral is........ if driving to europe then take out cover
Left Uk with my brother a couple of weeks ago, took the shuttle in my car and drove thru france, stayed the night at a lovely chateau and drove the next day to arrive in Biarritz, stayed the night at a nice hotel and so far all was quite enjoyable, next day drove thru (mini, I think) pyrannees and broke down, no probs,covered with AA breakdown, waited 3 hours for a tow. The local police were very good they stood outside our car and moved traffic away fm us. My car was taken to a ford dealer who said my automatic gear box had gone and would cost £2500 and take a week to do as part had to come fm germany. Told garage to keep the car as I had had the car fm new and suppose it was now only worth about £3000m wasnt worth the hassle, we left the car loaded with stuff to take to my friends in spain,but hey ho, what can you do. The AA put us up in a hotel and got a driver and car to take us next morning to bilbao for a flight home, hire car waiting for us at gatwick, good service fm them.
I have had to buy a new car now and we are taking off AGAIN for spain on saturday sooooo keep your fingers crossed everyone for me.
hope to pick up my ginger little dog (reg) on monday and stay a few days before taking off for UK, take care all,pat
moral is........ if driving to europe then take out cover
bloody hell Patsy, what a nightmare - good to see you are still in good spirits about it !!!! good luck with the next trip
bet you will be chuffed to get your woofer home with you - can you bring over some sun as its been pants here
saying that it is lovely today 
May 29th 2008, 3:03 pm
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Re: hello fm patsywhitehair
Hi Patsy
Lovely to hear from you again. Bet you have not got sick of the ability to get your fish and chips whenever you want them!!!!!!
What a nightmare trip you have just had.
Hope your house sale went through smoothly and that your life has settled down now. Be even better with you having the dog back in your new home.
Good Luck
Rosemary
Lovely to hear from you again. Bet you have not got sick of the ability to get your fish and chips whenever you want them!!!!!!
What a nightmare trip you have just had.
Hope your house sale went through smoothly and that your life has settled down now. Be even better with you having the dog back in your new home.
Good Luck
Rosemary
May 29th 2008, 5:53 pm
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Re: hello fm patsywhitehair
Patsy......what an horrific experience for you 
Hope all goes well on your second attempt .... what about the stuff in your car...was it all lost???/
Hope all goes well on your second attempt .... what about the stuff in your car...was it all lost???/
May 29th 2008, 6:06 pm
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Re: hello fm patsywhitehair
Patsy - what a fantastic attitude to life's setbacks - Hope your travelling is trouble free from now on
May 29th 2008, 9:32 pm
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Re: hello fm patsywhitehair
oh, just had to leave it all, only took overnight bags and wouldnt have been able to get it all in, que sera.
thing is my car only had 55000 miles on clock and was an s reg, so not done tooo much mileage.
May 30th 2008, 1:05 am
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Re: hello fm patsywhitehair
Patsy My wife always changes the car when the ash trays are full ........ And she doesn't smoke hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
May 30th 2008, 12:48 pm
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Re: hello fm patsywhitehair
Hi Patsy good to hear from you, I can't belive it is 6 months since you left little reg behind and returned to the UK, you were so up set at the time. Then to have such a dreadful thing to happen on the way back to collect him, thankfully you were with your brother and did not have to cope on your own.
Good luck for the return journey
hope all goes well this time, you really have to be applauded for your kind heart and all that you have done and will do for reg when you get him home, he is one lucky dog.
Good luck for the return journey
hope all goes well this time, you really have to be applauded for your kind heart and all that you have done and will do for reg when you get him home, he is one lucky dog.
