Travelling from Martizay to Jumilhac the engine went into “get-you-home-mode” and I was unable to travel above 30mph. Consequently I parked up on the very small aire alongside the chateau and called the recovery service. Unfortunately I’ve lost all the photos, but here are a couple taken from the web. The recovery was excellent, but it did concern me that the motorhome was not ties down to the recovery truck despite there being lots of sharp bends on the way to Chalus where the garage was. Automobiles Giraudeau was quick to diagnose the fault and sort it, and to my surprise, the mechanic was english.
I took the van for a 20 minute run to test the repair,and returned to the garage to pay for the diagnosis, but having gone 5 Km down the road, the fault returned. However I remembered the instructions from the mechanic and got it sorted. I, at this stage decided to start heading north as the van was becoming unreliable.