We picked her up today, both felt very nervous handing over the cash – it’s always nervous buying a second hand car but a van that’s over 20 years old…?!?!

The ‘technical’ chap who was going to show us how everything worked was off that day so they couldn’t give us a grande tour. Slightly annoying as we couldn’t really say we’d wait to pick her as it was a 2 hour round trip.

The journey home was quite eventful, the air vent in the roof popped up whilst going down the motorway. In fear of it ripping off completely I pulled over to secure it down… my efforts proved to be to no avail.

Anna was in front in the car and it was too late for her to pull in time. Thinking that she would slow down I set off merrily back to Leeds. Unknowing (in the excitement I forgot to take my mobile) she thought something more serious had happened and started heading back down the motorway as soon as she could get on the other lane…..

Also the wing mirrors decided to push themselves when going over 60mph in making it impossible to overtake (another job to go on the list) and it was chucking it down which didn’t help.

Eventually we both made it back home, after I had made an accidental detour round South Leeds (adding an extra hour on the journey!) and Anna had fruitlessly driven up and down the motorway.

Anyway we laughed about it after and we’ve got our lovely new campervan home in one piece!!

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