The Vendée Pool

[Noomo]

The Vendée Pool

This was definitely the daftest campervan trip I've ever done: Two long days of driving | Ten long days of labouring on a swimming pool construction | Two long days of driving.

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[Louey]

The Vendee can be a long drive (remember doing a 440 mile trek a few years ago)

I always wondered what you did for a living but I guess its not normally building swimming pools

[Noomo]

The Vendee can be a long drive (remember doing a 440 mile trek a few years ago)

I always wondered what you did for a living but I guess its not normally building swimming pools

On this trip there were several times each day when I was pleased to have virtually no responsibility for the swimming pool, or for anyone, or any thing much else.

For a living, Louey, I have a pension. Having (worked hard and) paid a lot to get that pension, I feel I've achieved probably my biggest ever ambition - not to need to have a job. I hope my situation doesn't cause me to be smug - I'd like to think that contented is nearer the mark. Many people work long after they could've retired. Many of them have their identity and personality very much tangled up in their employment, but I'm me, which seems (to me), preferable to being a job, a post, a grade, a rank, "a number on a list". I wonder if all those British people who could genuinely afford to retire now did so, would the UK suffer from significant unemployment?