Thanks for a very full and interesting diary Citycat.It made me realise that I made the correct decision back in the later 70’s when I turned down the “opportunity” to become a driver doing Continental camping tours for NAT Eurotours and stay driving coaches and buses in this country, keeping my sanity by doing agency work on the wagons when legal to do so on long weekends and holidays. As you say, it is a job you have to really take to to do it continuously. Doing it for a couple of trips is probably more than long enough. Respect to those, drivers and trip leaders who do it full time.
Les.