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We are almost ready for the late Spring trip

Here we are again, preparing for the slightly delayed 2023 Spring / early Summer trip. Originally this was to be a 'big' trip to Greece via Italy and home through the Carpathian mountains. However events at home meant that we couldn't leave soon enough to ensure a not-too-hot period in Greece. As it turns out, the weather in 'Europe' through April and May has been terrible and we would have had no heat issues in either Italy or Greece. In fact it sounds as though we could have floated through Italy, en-route to the ferry ports of Brindisi or Bari. We have been delayed by personal matters but also by the needs of the Land Rover, which decided to spit diesel out of the wrong parts of the (high pressure) fuel injection pump. This needed to be rebuilt (at Sheffield's own Sheaf Diesel) and whilst it was off I thought I'd better replace the timing belt, idler pulley and tensioner. It was last done in 2017 so it was really time anyway. So I had a few days of disass...