I visited Decathlon again today, I'm hooked, so much to see and study! Decathlon is a French company and their head office is in Mons and about three of the staff in my local branch are French. I was looking for a new water container today to fit into my rucksack but couldn't find them. I saw a young woman staff standing nearby and asked her where I could find them. That's when I realised she was French, she didn't understand me at first, I kept asking for a flexible water container, but at one point I must have used the word bladder. Her face then lit up, she now knew what I was asking for and she gave me a very white toothy grin, perfect teeth in fact, laughed out loud and said "do you mean bladdeeer monsieur", all I could say clumsingly smiling back was "Oui, yes, bladdeeer, Merci".That grin and laugh was really worth going shopping for! A classic case of an old man charmed!
I've now bought two synthetic pairs of boxer underwear, one blue, one red specifically for my hiking trips. I got it wrong in my earlier post, they were £3.99 each, not £2.99, sorry about that. My first underwear purchase was a Medium which I found to be too tight, so I've now purchased the Large which fit me perfectly. All I have to do now is go on a hike.