Car Breakdown Nearly Ruins Holiday

After a disastrous start to our fishing holiday (rental car breaking down on Autoroute), we found our hosts Martin and Shirley so, so friendly and they helped to get us out of a tricky situation. They couldn't do enough for us and changed what was a hellish week into a nice experience. We don't know how we would have got to our destination without Martin's knowledge of the French language. The lodge is outstanding and the kids and dogs had the time of their lives. I would definitely recommend staying here if you like a home-from-home with warm friendly hosts and nice fishing.

Fishing and Tactics: Not much fishing done. Arrived late, spent most of the week trying to sort out transport home and keeping the kids happy. Ended up having to leave early. Still managed to do a couple of fishing sessions and banked a 34lb common and 4 nice 20s on sweetcorn and pop up boilies.

A reminder to all from Martin: Even though he was in a hire car, Steve contacted the AA before leaving England and made sure he had valid breakdown cover for France. That's what finally got the family all the way home safe and sound.