Arriving in France late Sunday evening - anything open?

[tribalmango]

We are arriving at Montpellier airport at 9pm tomorrow, collecting a car and driving about an hour (west) to our rental, which is quite rural.

I am struggling to find somewhere we'll be able to pick up essentials for Sunday evening, Monday morning before we can get to a supermarket.

It looks like we might need to head into the city to find a convenience store.

Does anyone know?

My boys had a vending pizza last year and said it was disgusting. Never again… unless they were starving. Perhaps it could be an option…. 🤢

Great! Have a lovely holiday.

We arrived at Nice yesterday then had a 2.5 hour journey to holiday home, arriving 8pm. We opted for homemade sandwiches at the airport (to save money), snacks in the plane. A McDonald's during the car journey. Then this morning we've a couple of packets of biscuits to tide us over until we can get to the hypermarket (30 minutes away 😡).

Its a bit rubbish but DH is French and we live in France (were in the UK for part of our holiday) so we're all well-versed in the limited opening hours 😊

I still can't get my head round the fact that ordinary shops (clothes, shoes etc) close at 5.30/6pm in the UK. In France it's 7 or 8pm - much more practical for after work!

I too have hollow legged 10 and 12 year olds but I will admit that we all overindulged in our favourite UK food (I will defend some of our delicious food to anyone and everyone - homemade roast with yorkshire pudding? My boys dream about it all year) so it did make the trip easier for us.

Hope you have a lovely time in the south. We ve woken up to gorgeous weather here

Hooray, as I predicted 😁. Envious of your holiday now, OP. Montpellier itself is fabulous.

Lovely house, but am baffled as to why people choose real wood kitchen counters, especially in a place they're going to rent.
No hot things, nothing that might stain, not cutting (fair), and spills wiped straight away.

I've told the boys to not do anything unless they have a chop board or coaster.

What is the attraction of installing something you can't use freely in a kitchen?

No hot things, nothing that might stain, not cutting (fair), and spills wiped straight away

Definitely don't drip raw egg white onto it either.

Glad you got there OK and got fed. Enjoy your holiday!

I love a wooden worktop. Stayed in a rental recently which had them, and it made me pine (sorry) for my old beautiful wooden worktops

You're welcome! it does sound a little galère.