Friday, 21 June 2019

On our travels again

On the road early again today after giving the garden a final water.  We were away by 06:00 for the drive (into the sun) to catch our train at Ashford.  The last leg of the drive was complicated by a very long diversion, so it was a good thing we’d given ourselves plenty of time.  

Yesterday I had an email from Barclaycard, saying that, since I hadn’t used my card lately (if indeed at all), they had cut my credit limit to £250, if you please!  Well, on arrival in Ashford, I realised that I’d forgotten to pack tea bags.  Fortunately, one of the shops had a packet of Twinings English Breakfast, so I made a token contactless purchase thereof with said card.  We’ll see whether that restores my old limit: it will at least use up the little bit of credit that has been hanging around on my account, and I’ll be able to give Barclaycard the sack with a nil balance.

The wonders of modern technology: I’m posting this as we hurtle across northern France at close on 300 kph.  The train left Ashford at 07:55, and we expect to be deposited in Avignon at 14:08.  When my father was the age I am now, I doubt he’d have believed anyone who suggested you could get a direct train from Kent to Avignon, let alone one that does the journey in barely over 5 hours.  Well, we ain’t there yet, of course, but we’ve used the service twice before and found it good and punctual.  We’re in one of the 25+ years old sets, but it has been refitted recently, and although the seats are less generous than before, they are clean and comfortable.

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