A thread to offer up a random selection of recommendations and cautions. In Chat, but may well include Bike stuff.

Good
Carrefour large jars of ratatouille, the perfect tomatoes and veg base for easy cooking.

Bad
“black seal” tubeless sealant by MSC. Probably unlikely to find it blighty-side of the channel, but give this stuff a wide berth even if you are in dire straits with your tubeless. Pissy wet sticky fruit juice would be a better description.

French wall sockets and light switches. Dear God which criminal bastard invented these things?

Surprisingly good: the 1.70€ rose we bought from Carrefour the per week on holiday. We expected to be using it to wash the bikes but it’s actually rather nice, so we brought 24 bottles back with us.
Bad: forgetting to take it out of the caravan so it’s tucked up 6 miles away where I can’t get it as we had just enough beer in the house to put me over the limit & I can’t be bothered to ride there.