New Plan

After an interesting experience with a sack truck, (crushing all of one's fingers bar two is actually surprisingly instructive in terms of getting to see how everyone can cope with a mother without functioning hands, - very well it seems - may have to do this more often) - we are back on track with a revised plan: we are definitely going to get to Paris come what may and Portugal still on, though the camping all rather depends on a fuller recovery of ribs and fingers!

But overall...great news...I can now type...one handedly admittedly but am pretty pleased with this, given the circumstances.