Grey day with a few sunny spells. Saw Musia off around 9.30 a.m. waved bye bye to Andy and Sue, then we went off in the car into France to phone our surveyor again. Still on voicemail so we went to see if there was anyone in at his house to leave a message. Mike called at the Post Office in the village to ask where his road was – they did him a printout of a map. Found the place easily enough and, surprisingly, it was a farmhouse. Rang the bell a couple of times and eventually a very pleasant lady opened the door. Mike told her we were looking for the surveyor and she said he was away in Lyons for a couple of days doing some surveys but would be back later tonight then in his office the following day. I’d written out a note in English (we’d been chatting in French) leaving the Snail’s Belgian phone number, which she said she would give him. That’s a relief, we thought he might have been off on his holidays again. Drove nearer to the village and set up the laptop on the Internet, checked the emails then found out where the nearest Carrefour was. It was in Flers near Douai so we set up Lucy GPS to find it. A big newish hyper, we found almost all the things we wanted. Mike had two new pairs of pumps at 10€ a pair and three containers of oil for the boat at 7,64€ (5 litres) cheaper than in Carrefour Tournai which was 12€ +. Spent almost 160€! Stocked up on chicken for the freezer and sausages for BBQing I, plus noodles and mayo, etc. It was after three when we got back, so we had a very late lunch. A Dutch cruiser called Jane arrived and moored between us and Johanna.
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