We had an eventful day on our way back, firstly we were given a vacuum to use on our vacuum bags….Dave was using it when he realised its last job had been to clear a drain, and the foul water spilled in the mobile home…..pooooooh :O( When we sorted that out, we headed into town for some cheaper petrol, then on to the auto-route, we drove for about 1/2 hour before reaching the end of a traffic jam…….there had been a bad accident and we were stuck, it was 34C in the car, and we have no working air con !! Fortunately we were right beside an “aire” or service station, on with toilets, shopping and coffee machines, and like a lot of other cars/ trucks we decided this was the place to wait……..it took 1/2 hour to get into the service area, we were there for 2 hours!! then on our next leg of the auto-route there was a terrific thunder storm, and i feared we might see accident number 2…….but fortunately not, so that was our 3 bad things….they come in threes ‘tis said :O)
Meanwhile a picture missed by most auto-route traffic as it speeds by, were these snails….aestivating/estivating. http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312800/estivation.htm
According to a friend, this is how the travelling people all over this area used to gather the snails to eat…….a bit like cockles i suppose ?
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