What still no Internet - Groan - lol

Wendy in Treignac

Well time has flown since we arrived at our new home, now refered to as "RidersRest".
We now have a phone line after some initial teething problems +33 (0)555 731433 - the line was down somewhere up the road which had to be relaid, thanks to the Immobiliare and Catherine who sorted it out for us. We are still no further down the line regarding Internet Connection at home so will need to set up some sort of dial up to at least get email and do some painfully slow surfing. We are looking into a Satelite provider but as yet have not contacted anyone in the know...

A visiter

We arrived on the 4th mid afternoon and from the 5th to the 10th we cleaned and got everything set up and started to manage the grounds around the house and cut it all back to a reasonable height, it is surprising how quickly everything has become overgrown again.
We also managed a couple of rideouts together after insuring the FJR which was a challenge. To be fair the weather has been great and we have ridden every day so far.

The insurance for the FJR started at 990 euros for all risk and any rider, down to 170 euros 3rd Party just me riding. so it is about 500 euros for fully comp (equiv) discounted to 350euros if I have my house insurance with the same agency (you can sign a promse to change to them on your renewal date to get the discount immediately which I did). I took the 3rd Part policy gotta think of the pocket.

We spend some time trying to get the Rocket registered at Tulle but came accross a brick wall and was thrust a mega cmplex form which we had to fill in and take to the DRIRE in Brive and for a small fee they would provide all relevant details to the Profectur in Tulle so they can issue a Cart Grise so with a bit of luck I should have it all sorted by the end of the month ( the forms are with the DRIRE but everything takes 10 days ).

The 11th was an eventful day as we had our first proper guests. I met John, Dave and Lisa on the ferry over on the 4th and gave them a card inviting them to stay if they found theselves close, they stayed overnigh on the 11/12th. We used this experience as a dry run to what it was going to be like when we were open for business properly. We consumed some wine and beer and made us realise how good the social life was ging to be and also how easy it was oing to be to drink the profits...

The same day 11th Mike (ActionMike) arrived for a weeks riding holiday intermingled with a look arround and measure up for the building work he is going to be doing for/with us, namely getting the place together so we can provide sleeping and ablutions facilities for the group accommodation. by the end of the week he didn' want to leave but even though it was raining we rode with him to the A20 to see him on his way. He will be back and left a monster shopping list of materials and fixtures for us to get. Again Mike came on his Rocket so we proudly rode around some of the local twisties and out as far as Toulouse in search of a Brico-Depot for a catelogue so Mike could complile the said shopping list. Along with the shopping list there is a list (VShort) of things I can be gettng on with - The one thing that Mike did do when he was here was reasure us that what we were trying to do with the available space was possible and we were able to measure up and divide the space into actual rooms so we could get a feel for sizes - cheers Mike.

We took in some of the culture in Treignac wandering round the Medievil town and even though we were impressed with the bits we had seen up til now we were impressed at how beautiful the town was and how well maintained everything is, a great place to wonder around some of the building are dated 1500 and still being used.

I think Mike was sad to go since Wendy cooked some outstanding meals for us even managing to cook a fresh cake for our morning brew.