A little trip to Bourg

The Jack Wills Land Rover has come to town! Hand delivered by the Jack Wills crew last week, the land rover is the symbol of freedom! Having not actually left Val d’Isere since I arrived in November (apart from the odd trip to Bourg hospital), we are all beginning to get a little sense of cabin fever, so our small trip to the supermarket was a very exciting event!

Having collected the keys off Fraser, I had a drive around Val’s one way system first to get a feel for the beast, and then myself, Kay and Steph headed on down to Bourg!

We were very short on Diesel so I wasn’t sure if we’d make it all the way; also was a little concerned that I was going to drive off a cliff because the French don’t seem to see the need for safety barriers separating the road from sheer drops however we survived the voyage and pulled into Bourg ‘Super U’ in one piece!

Parking was interesting especially considering that the handbrake had broken, so we had a very professional technique of ensuring that the landy wasn’t going to roll away… leave it in reverse, turn the steering wheel away from other cars and wiggle…!

Once in Super U we had a field day with all the reasonably priced toiletries and food! You can actually buy a box of cereal for less than 3 euros! Amazing and fairly unheard of in Val.

Had a small issue at the checkout when Steph hadn’t weighed her carrots so the checkout lady went a bit mental at her! When Steph explained that in England we generally weigh them at the checkout she instructed Steph to go back immediately and weigh her carrots! This then led to Steph putting the carrots back having decided that they were far too much hassle, which then led to the checkout lady calling Steph crazy and questioning why she had picked up the carrots in the first place if she didn’t want them- yes Steph, why did you do that?! Why why why?!?!?!?!

Following on from this little trauma came a much larger one… we broke the car wash!

The land rover was absolutely filthy after being driven all through France by the boys on their tour of the ski resorts, so I thought that it could do with a clean! Seeing a perfectly good car wash, we asked the lady at the petrol station if we would be ok to take the land rover through it… she said yes, so this is what we did…

All fine and well until it stopped whilst we were half way through…!

This then led to us all massively panicking and realising that the only way out was the way that we had come in… given that there was now a queue of cars behind us, we had to reverse and off road it up a grass verge to get around the broken car wash!

It’s all fine though because the Land Rover is very inconspicuous so they will never know that it was us who broke it! Haha!

So anyway, despite one or two dramas, the trip went relatively smoothly and I think we successfully promoted Jack Wills to the people of Bourg having been tooted at a few times, and being stopped for photos in car parks. Mission accomplished and we safely returned to Val stocked up on cereal and with no carrots in sight!

Lots of love

Emily xxx