Day 17, Monday - bargain day

Off to the market and bought Mum a casserole, and us a mincer and a couple of cups and saucers. Not very exciting after the originals painted on silk we saw last week. Great bargains this morning - hundreds of biscuits for 10F, but the voice of reason, (aka David) said 'What do we need all them for?' Then we found a tray of peaches for 10F weighing 5 kilos, but yet again the disembodied voice at my shoulder said 'No good buying them, they'll go off.' So that was that.

Another fine day and the kids even played at the water's edge and although the sea temperature has remained at 16 or 17.5 degrees, Joanna came in with me and we couldn't get her out. Louise was having none of it. I could float in that sea, very salty, couldn't move back or forward though, would love to be able to swim.

At night we went to the bar to make our farewells and discovered that the bar serves tea. The boring Dutch people we met gave the girls sweets and biscuits for the journey so we felt obliged to invite them to the bar for a drink. Shock, horror - they drank whisky at 9F a tot, that's over a pound.

Expenses Francs.
Casserole 22.00
Mincer 19.00
cups and saucers 25.00
saucisson 9.50
bread, milk, vin 6.65
more bread 1.75
coffees 11.00
pepsi 3.50
fruit 4.60
campsite 24.60
gas 21.00