The weather has finally
decided to buck up and the day started, and remained, warm sunny and
dry. After a chat with a solo Brit parked next to us we had breakfast
and walked into the town to see if we could find the vet mentioned in
our database.
We were delighted to
find a very nice, typical French town with lots of bars and
restaurants, although not much of anything else, including the vet we
were looking for. However there was a Tourist Information office so
we called in and the lady found a vet, just on the outskirts of town.
Just a tad too far to walk we made our way back to the van and drove
round – but of course typically for us it had just closed however
they checked and said come back after 2.00 pm. It turned out that it
happened to be the vets morning off so we would have had to come back
anyway.
Returned to the parking
to relax and have lunch before returning. We were met by a very nice
lady vet who spoke good English (although we did of course speak
French to her; it's only polite but she was better at it than us....)
A thorough checkup followed by administration of a tablet – Jamie
doesn't like tablets and was having none of it... until Madame La
Docteur sorted him out; must remember how to do that. Paperwork
completed and we were relieved of €43; bit of a rip-off really but
it would probably cost the same at home.
With Jamie sorted, our
next task was to refuel and get some final shopping in, so headed off
to our usual haunt of Auchan in west Calais to get that completed. We
now have to wait a minimum of 24 hours before we can take Jamie back
to the UK so we headed off south to a favourite aire at Wissant,
which turned out to be almost full but we found a nice pitch. Then on
the phone to Eurotunnel to rearrange the return crossing for Friday
which of course cost us a surcharge being so close to the departure
time.
So now we've nothing
left to do for a day or so except enjoy whatever nice weather we get.
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