After our journey from hell in the French mountains, surely the Gods were going to look on us favourably as we left Palma for France.

Well, it turns out they weren’t. Honestly, we couldn’t make this stuff up….

Here’s a pic of the aftermath:

The upshot is this - 2 days ago we nearly lost the van, the boat and all our worldly possessions in a pretty frightening encounter. In fact, we’re lucky we walked away from this one relatively unscathed. Let’s start from the beginning…

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