things to check before you leave...

Make sure your portable fridge is switched to "kalt" not "heiss".

We stopped on the road to Biarritz at a reasonably pleasant roadside picnic spot for a lunch of leftovers from the previous day´s outstanding fete feast - so soup, cheese and cold roasted aubergines.

However, as somebody - ie me, Theo - had inadvertently switched the fridge onto heater mode when strapping it in we got a bit of a surprise. Our yoghurts were now very liquid and had to be jettisoned, our pepper practically cooked through, and the half a kilo of comte and brie cheeses somewhat, er, sweaty!

Actually the comte in particular turned out to be rather nice half-melted and so all was not lost. We did have to eat it all rather more quickly than planned and threw away a bit of our brie, but never mind.

At least we didn't have any butter or chocolate in there...