We say good-bye to our Irish motor-home

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After we bought the motor-home in Ireland (catch up here: https://www.mylot.com/post/3383236/the-time-we-bought-a-motor-home-in-ireland) we spent some time in Ireland then put the vehicle on the ferry and went to Cherbourg in France. Over the next four months we toured parts of France, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. We then went back to England, attended our nephew’s wedding in Surrey, then headed up to Scotland before going back to Ireland. We enjoyed ourselves so much we left the vehicle with our son until 2017 when we went back to Ireland and travelled around Ireland and France. In Bordeaux we met up with @topffer and spent a very pleasant sight-seeing under his expert guidance. We were away three months this time. However, while we were in the Pyrenees, we scraped a roadside barrier. The body of the vehicle was slit but we were able to continue without any trouble. We sent photographs to the insurance company and were told to get quotes for repairs when we got back to Ireland. Although the damage looked minor, it was a difficult repair job and in the end the insurance company decided to write off the vehicle. We were paid the 10,000 euro that we’d insured it for (and which was also the purchase price). We had been able to use it to the very last day we were there. So we’d had seven months living in it and got the full amount of our purchase back. We could hardly believe we’d been so lucky.