Sorry to bore you again but we must finish the story about our caravan plumbing. We have decided that the existing structure does not work and so following a light breakfast, a little later than usual we headed off to the Bricomarche in Gourdon. Bricomarche is the equivalent of Focus do it yourself.
We searched Bricomarche high and low and found a suitable water pipe and then was just moving to the plastic plumbing section when all the shop lights went out at about 11.55 and then a few minutes later they came on again. We assumed a minor power cut as other parts of the mall were banging away full steam until 1230 and then after a short while a guy came up to us and said in his best French and said, I will say this only once ‘bugger’ off we are closed, well that’s what is sounded like. So we left what we were going to purchase on any old shelf and left the shop and wondered what we can do for the next two hours. Well along the block was an Intermarche Hypermarket and the same chain as Bricomarche, but this shop was positively open for business and so Jennifer started looking a ladies wear and Noel the hi tech section for about 30 minutes and then went next door to the supermarket restaurant for lunch of Pasta Carbonara which was excellent and that killed the next 90 minutes before heading back to the Bricomarche. We collected the stuff we had left and also bought some 4 metre plastic piping, which we asked the guy to cut so that we can get it in the car, and also some connecting pieces. We stopped at a small local store en route home and only bought a cheapish bottle of locally produced ‘Malbec’ wine which we intend to have for dinner at our planned BBQ tonight.
One hour later and all plumbed up we left for the swimming pool, Noel did some emails etc, and one email came back from the credit card company apologising for the problem which they are aware off but so far have been unable to solve and thanks for letting them know, but this still does not give me back an outstanding 100 euros of my money.Lets see what happens next.
We left the pool a little later than planned and decided it was too late for a BBQ and so we would save the chicken until tomorrow night when we have less pressing matters to attend to like going swimming and reading and sleeping etc.
A nice day and the temperature started to drop this evening and so at about 10 pm we retired to the caravan
NB No new photos as we have only visted same places as last year so look at leat year for photos of the area
