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way there contents thrown out! This could have happened when one of the doctors had decided to use them to climb up onto the driving cab seat I had fitted. I soon learnt that these medics just had no respect for other people’s property! I do not think one of the cases came back complete most had the lid falling off by the end of our trip!

Washing and keeping clean just did not happen! I soon found it sensible to look after my own plates and cutlery if I didn’t the others would use them and certainly would not bother to clean them. On our first camp supper I had been involved helping with the cooking and with the dishing out and soon found someone else used my plates and equipment.

After supper when collecting the used plates I looked out for mine and again in the morning but I could not find them anywhere again when washing up I was looking for my things again. When breakfast was cooked I again had this problem and finished up making do with a home made carboard spoon and wooden blade to handle it. When we did prepare to leave the camp site I had one last search around the camp only to find my plates and cups with others and cups under some bushes! In the long grass all around the camp I found knives forks and spoons just thrown down. Naturally I was a bit wild and asked who had used them and why had they not washed them up. This was met with a suggest that I stopped moaning so much after all I was only a guest!!

As we travelled further south through France I soon found that the camping areas they chose were usually miles from any habitation, water supply was none existent. Choice of a site was made even more difficult for our start each day was always delayed and seldom occurred before mid day, caused in the main from the hang-over’s from the heavy drinking the night before. I seemed to be the only one who wanted to clean up after a meal and when I stopped doing this for the rest of the group it was left and loads of equipment was just forgotten and lost on each camp site.

Unless we camped alongside a river the chance of getting washed or cleaning done was non existent. As we travelled the road the rest of the group would get through a surprisingly large quantity of wines and drink. Empty bottles were just thrown away anywhere. So I looked out over the site for large ones with screw caps. From now on when we stopped in a village for a shop or to stock up with more wine, the others used such stops as an excuse to booze. So while they got on with it I would find the village water pump and fill all my empty wine bottles. I suggested my fellow travellers they should do the same but was laughed at. So I kept my supply of drinking water in a secret outside locker of the bus were I and Stan kept our repair tools thank goodness we had fixed it with a padlock or it would have been ransacked..

The water enabled me to always to have drinking water available but more important I could wash and shave myself in the morning and have clean plates and cutlery always for my own meals. The following mornings many of the other travellers soon found they had no water to wash in or drink and soon noticed I had a bottle full which they asked a share of. I let them have help to start with and let my friends have a bottle or two of water but soon realised they treated me as a scivy and expected me to find plates and wash up for them explaining they were too busy enjoying the hokliday & wine sampling! So I gave up the service and made myself unpopular..

By the time we crossed into Spain stomach pains started to appear, it was bound to happen for flies covered everything after meals and plates were not cleaned. Though I was careful with my own equipment I too got a touch of Dysentery. The doctors had

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