Our last day before our Xmas destination. Driving through field and fields of orange trees to the town of Ronda. We checked in and then went off in search of the old town.
Unfortunately it was busy and we couldn't find anywhere to park the big bus, so about turn and then left to another street. Ahhh, this looks a bit narrow, oh, there is a car behind now. We'll keep going and turn left here - into an even narrower street with cars parked down the right hand side. It's ok, we did this in Figueres, old hands now. Just creep among the kerb and watch the left side in the wing mirrors. That blue car 50 yards ahead is not parked very well. Hmm. We could mount the pavement. No, no room to do that now.
Jc is out and looking and nodding and shaking head and then the locals are out and everyone is muttering and mostly shaking heads and then we are well and truly stuck - between 2 cars and the pavement. My view now is that this is an insurance claim and we can't stay here all day. So first gear and forward. Seat Ibiza's seem to be very bendy and the side of the most forward one sort of caved in a bit to let us through. Amazingly Wishstream has very little damage and nothing actually fell off the other cars. We were just left with one black car with orange bits on its front corner and a blue car with caved in side and go fast orange stripes ( a lot of them) all down the side. Neither of them were in great condition before but ...... By this time the local police had arrived. Blue flashing lights et all in 3 cars. The main officer was really nice and took down all the details on the back of an envelope and gave us some details in Spanish on a scrap of notepaper for us to give to our insurance company. He asked for the log book and my passport but forgot to look at them. He then cleared the bystanders and allowed us to go the wrong way down a one way street, waving us off as we went. PHEW. Jc and I were very quiet when we got back to the site. We parked up and put the kettle on.
I then phoned AXA in England and spoke to an Indian trainee who asked me if I had any disabilities, if the van had been modified, and if we were going to make a claim. Once I explained that we had virtually no damage and wouldn't be making a claim ourselves, he put me on hold for ages and came back to say that everything was fine and we wouldn't loose our no claims bonus as we weren't going to make a claim!! Yes, but ...... Oh, never mind. It is all too difficult. I still wonder if it was all a bad dream!!!
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Location:Ronda
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