On the subject of what one can't buy "abroad"
A good friend (and ex manager) of mine with 4 children always used to drive to the South of France for their annual camping holiday. Realising that the children were getting bigger he first invested in an Espace and then a roof box.
As we worked together we frequently stopped near his place on our journeys home for a pint and one evening he told me he had some papers at home which I would need whilst he was away. We got to his house to find his wife had got the roof box out of the garage and loaded it ready for the early morning start planned for the next day. It was on the front lawn next to the car.
He went mad! "How the fvck do you expect me to lift that onto the roof of the Espace?" he demanded.
Soooooo Ever helpful I offered to help but we couldn't lift the damn thing so the decision was made to unload it and fit it to the car and then reload it.
When we unpacked the bloody thing we found she had packed into it, along with a dozen tins of baked beans, tea bags, 6 boxes of cornflakes and sundry other foodstuff sufficient for a family of 6 for a fortnight, 24 litre bottles of "Evian" water ..... "Because you can't trust the water in France".
His language, as he pointed out the labels clearly stated that "Evian" is bottled in France, nearly led to the divorce courts!
