The date to move the furniture is rapidly approaching (13 days), and is a major milestone in our plan to escape the rat race. I have booked a U-Drive Luton Van/Truck and essentially what we don’t get in it will be dumped. Wendy is slowly (because we have the time) getting rid of the no longer required possessions, and buying new things that we are going to need but might not be able to source in France, Including a mountain of bedding and towels which we will surely need to stock a B&B.

I am ferrying boxes when I find them home to be filled – reminds us both of our childhood since being children of service fathers we often packed moved and unpacked so we are pretty good of ditching possessions knowing we are not really going to miss them at the end of the day.

We will also be trailering Wendy’s CB500S this time around so I have it booked for a major service and to de-restrict the bike from 33Bhp to the stock 58Bhp so Wendy will notice a performance increase. In the UK she would have had to ride for another year with it restricted but in France we would be unlikely to find someone who could remove the F1 restriction units and tune it up properly hence the reason for doing it slightly early.

I hope to register the R111 when we are over in July and hope I am as successful as I was with the FJR – I will have all the same paperwork but I am a little worried about the power which considerable exceeds the max permitted in France, but so to did the FJR, so I will keep my fingers crossed and get on with it. It will be a different story with the CB500S as this is pre EU conformance so I will have to go through an inspection process but as yet I am unsure of the process…