Stephanie Jane: My Week in Review to the 19th August

I am linking up with The Sunday Post hosted by Kimberly at The Caffeinated Reviewer.

I'm also linking up again with What Are You Reading at The Book Date:
The last couple of days I have been struggling to connect with The High Mountains Of Portugal by Yann Martel. I loved Life Of Pi so had high hopes for High Mountains. It might get better. I've been somewhat distracted since Thursday with New Happenings so my reading focus was pretty much non-existent!

And those New Happenings can be seen in that photo top right! Our new-to-us almost-vintage Hymer motorhome! Woo hoo!

It's shown pitched up at the lovely Ashe Farm Campsite where we stayed after picking it up on Thursday. We bought it from Somerset Motorhome Centre who kindly paid for a night's pitch fees so we could try it out while remaining close by the dealership - the campsite is just a few miles down the road. We thought this a great idea and did nearly need to ring up a couple of times with questions although we managed to figure out potential problems ourselves.

This motorhome is a mix of technology we're used to from caravanning and new ideas such as the onboard watertanks. It's nice to not be as overwhelmed as when we first set out with our caravan - all those years ago. And the motorhome being a German manufactured one means I will need to brush up my A level German pretty sharpish in order to make sense of the instructions. For example 'kreis' doesn't mean 'cross' as I had guessed. It means 'circle' as in electrical circuit. That's hopefully a word I won't forget in a hurry!

We did already discover a couple of things we were told on the handover aren't true - we don't need to whack the outside locker catches to make them close for example! Now we're eager to get on the road and away. Will someone Please buy our Torquay apartment?!