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24/04/2008, 21:58 dave21478 Joined on 04/09/2006 Tarn Posts 268 Re: guests have disappeared. a ten hour drive each way....that would have to be a serious row!   Ok.... tomorrow, I will go in and have a look for a note. If there is nothing, Ill call their home number and see if there is any answer there. If there are still no clues, I will leave it untill saturday. I need to do the changeover for the other gite and once thats done, if they still havent showed Ill.....I willl.....dunno....call the cops?        Report

24/04/2008, 21:58 Christine Animal Joined on 14/05/2005 Deux-Sèvres Posts 4,374 Re: guests have disappeared. By the marks on the lawn it looked like a quick dash !   animalaidsaintaubin.monsite.orange.fr/ Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful    Report

24/04/2008, 22:03 Christine Animal Joined on 14/05/2005 Deux-Sèvres Posts 4,374 Re: guests have disappeared. You never know what people will do.  When we were young on holiday in Spain there were a couple of English boys there on motorbikes, both called Bob, the two Bobs.  One suddenly got terrible toothache and disappeared.  He drove all the way back to England on his bike to see his dentist and then came all the way back down again! Maybe these people received a call about a family member who had an accident or was suddenly taken ill, or maybe they realised they had forgotten the dog at home!   animalaidsaintaubin.monsite.orange.fr/ Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful    Report

24/04/2008, 22:06 Cerise Joined on 23/08/2004 Laguepie Tarn & Garonne Posts 783 Re: guests have disappeared. They may simply have gone visiting.  Just sent directions to a friend who is visiting us for 2 nights next week whilst she is renting a gite for 10 days near Beziers - better tell her to tell the owner she is going away.  If I wanted to go off for a couple of days in my holiday (with just an overnight bag) I wouldn't necessarily think to let the gite owner know.  Being English I probably would if I saw them, but I do find our French guests much more private.  English guests always tell me where they have been for the day, French ones often don't and sometimes go to their rooms without speaking.  Not rude - just private.  Have you got their car number? If they don't turn up by tomorrow evening you could call the police to check if they have been involved in an accident.  They'll probably come back, perfectly Ok for them to pay for a gite they are not in if they want to.    Report

24/04/2008, 22:12 Cendrillon Joined on 19/10/2007 S.E. England & S.W.France Posts 440 Re: guests have disappeared. Cerise You have a point, perhaps they have just gone visiting but as they are French I might have expected them to at least close the shutters if they were going to stay away overnight. Cendrillon    Report

25/04/2008, 1:23 Pads Joined on 24/05/2006 Cornwall/ Montage Noir Posts 3,426 Re: guests have disappeared. Maybe one was taken ill and they rushed to the nearest hospital and are still stuck there? Have you rung the hospital to ask ? Hope they are OK Dirty Tom =^..^= Where ever I lay my paw thats my home    Report

25/04/2008, 9:59 Cendrillon Joined on 19/10/2007 S.E. England & S.W.France Posts 440 Re: guests have disappeared. Any news? Cendrillon    Report

25/04/2008, 14:17 dave21478 Joined on 04/09/2006 Tarn Posts 268 Re: guests have disappeared. Well, its 3 oclock, and still no sign of them. I went in earlier and had a quick look around. No note or any other obvious reason for them to have left, and what appears to be the majority, if not all, their posessions are still inside. I phoned the only number I have for them, which is the home number in Cherbourg and there is no reply and no answering machine. Nothing more I can do really, If they havent turned up by tomorrow morning, I will call the police and see what they suggest.    Report

25/04/2008, 14:27 Cendrillon Joined on 19/10/2007 S.E. England & S.W.France Posts 440 Re: guests have disappeared. Even more bizarre!   Thanks for getting back to us.   Bon courage Cendrillon    Report

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