Date: Thursday 22 June 2017 Weather: Very Hot sunny. Mile: 000 /
Today we had scheduled lunch at Leclerc's. This is a very well known supermarket chain in France. Situated on the edge of Limoges they are the central focus of a very large shopping mall. Probably not in the same league as our 'malls' at home but very clean, light and modern. It's main feature that has most people returning, is its self service restaurant. It has a huge seating capacity and a very wide and varied menu. We have been there on quite a few occasions over the last nine years that Angie and Tom have been living here. Virtually every time I go for the jambon and frites. I was tempted by the half lobster and salad but common sense prevailed.
We had been to a salvage yard earlier this morning looking for some iron axle for Tom's latest project. A trailer for 'Audrey' the steam engine. This was followed by a trip into Decathalon for us Stopportons, we were looking for a small collapsible occasional table for the camper. No luck on this occasion. https://www.decathlon.co.uk/
After lunch we took ourselves around the corner to the Camping Car dealer.
After lunch we took ourselves around the corner to the Camping Car dealer.
Here we wandered in and out of the twenty or so units. They were very nice, the inside finish was almost luxurious but alas to our mind there was no social area unless you and your visitors/guests sat around a table in the front cab. Neither were we impressed with the kitchen area. It was virtually non existent. The sink and hob area had nowhere to place anything except for a tiny narrow shelf along the rear of the seats. In our Autotrail Trakker it's not large but adequate. It seems to be the style on continental vans. Horses for courses. We were however impressed with the bedrooms. They did take up a lot of space with en-suite W.C. and shower. We both agreed that if perhaps you were 'fulltiming' a separate end bedroom might be of some use. I managed to buy a lovely telescopic handled windscreen brush and squeggy so that we can clean the front windscreen. It gets very dusty and dirty and the centre part is virtually impossible to reach. Returning to the car the temperature was reading 45'C. Impossible. We panicked. Mainly because in Leclerc earlier we had bought a tray of cream cakes to eat this afternoon and we were panicking they would have melted despite being in a cool-bag. We raced home. Fortunately, we managed to save them.
