At some time in the night, I was woken by the igniter on the fridge attempting to light a non-existant gas supply. The gas bottle, than had been producing characteristic smellier-than-normal gas for a while as an indicator that it was running out had actually run out.

Rather than crash about changing the cylinder, I ventured out the back of the van with my trusty little flashlight, and opened up the hookup cabinet. The trip on our supply had dropped out for some unknown reason. I was able to reset it without doing anything else, and returned to the relative warmth and dryness of the van, switched the fridge back over to mains supply, and went back to bed.

During the night, we had some more thunder and lightning with the rain, although not as bad as the other night. A couple of times I checked that the awning was secure, and the water was running happily off it and not forming an enormous lake in the centre as it did before.

In the morning, I took advantage of a short break in the rain to empty things that needed emptying, and changed over the gas bottle. No more smelly gas for a while.

Over the morning, the weather brightened up, and I filled the water tank, removed the silver screen, and washed down the front of the van. We then went the whole hog, and retracted the awning, and put the chairs and table away. Ed had popped over to say they were going to try to find the restaurant in the hills again, and would we like to come along?

We didn’t need asking twice.

In the evening, Julia drove up the windy round into the hills, and we asked someone near to the previous restaurant if he knew of this ‘other’ restaurant, with the beautiful view of the lake. He pointed us in the direction we were going, and it was interesting for us in the car to interpret his arm movements and gestures. We didn’t need to hear what he was saying.

We found the restaurant, although we still weren’t sure it was the restaurant, but never mind. The food was nice.

When we got back to camp, we said our goodbyes, as we were likely to be leaving early-ish in the morning.

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