Quietly productive

 Today was a quietly productive day.

We woke to find that our internet was still connected. When I investigated it appears that the reset date has been set to the billing date which means this month at least we didn't run out. We still have the French data to use at the end of the next month too. 

J was wondering when we would get the refund for our unused ferry cabin and when she checked her email there was a message about it. Spooky!

We've had a broken latch for a while so we visited a camper-van shop (or three in the end!) and got a replacement. We also got a fitting to enable us to attach a French regulator to our gas pipework.

We visited a booktown called Becherel which could have been nice but it rained heavily when we got there and most of the shops were closed for lunch. I think we saw three natives and 4 tourists. It did have a wonderful view over the surrounding countryside - you could see the rain coming for miles. We sat and had lunch to an accompaniment of thunder.

Then we visited a hypermarche to buy a French gas bottle. What a kerfuffle. We did eventually end up with a bottle and the appropriate regulator, but it took some to-ing and fro-ing to get the message across that we needed a new bottle, not just a swap.

Then when I had a look at it it appeared that the regulator would not fit on the bottle in our locker. Quelle horreure! So we drove to our third dealer of the day who showed this idiot that there was a protective collar screwed on to protect the valve. (Blushes.) OK, embarrassment aside we now have renewable gas for as long as we want to stay in France, though we also now have 2 empty gas bottles, one at least of which will have to stay in here!

We stopped in Tinteniac which has little claim to fame other than being adjacent to a canal. It does have a church with some quirks though.

A byzantine style facade, with coloured glass blocks for windows.

You may remember we bought an oven a few days back. Well, on this day of quiet achievement I installed it in place of the microwave which we very seldom used. We can only use it when plugged-in, but that's around a third of the time anyway. Yay, now I could have roasts, or bake a cake. (Yeah, right!)

So all in all, quite a satisfying day. Just the radiator hose to fix now...