This blog is dedicated to explaining our endless hunt for supplies.

Rangiroa

The little village shop had fresh bread in the mornings – hurray !

We also found some in date ham in the fridge, however no sign of any vegetables or fruit and we were lucky to purchase the last two remaining tomatoes.

Tikehau

We found a delightful tiny kitten in the village shop that the owner tried to give to us to take away to the boat (not to eat), very tempting !

However the only fresh produce were onions and potatoes. No sign of any salad – but the supply ship was due in that night which sounded promising.

The bread had to be ordered and collected from the bakers at 5pm the following day.

We returned the next day at 9.00am (another soaking in the dinghy) hoping for some new stock only to be told that they had already sold out of tomatoes and lettuce, but we did manage to secure a white cabbage and a cucumber and two carrots – yippee !

We then walked half a mile in the hot sun to the next shop and managed to buy the last two tomatoes and some cartons of wine.

The wine was Spanish table wine, very dusty and dubious looking and cost us £10 for a litre – but needs must.

Our tummies are growing fast from filling up on the

delicious bread so we were very excited about our

fresh purchases and it was off to prepare

a healthy salad for lunch.

Well didn’t we do well !

With the help of a few tins that have become

essential supplies (sweetcorn & beetroot)

I am always amazed how we manage to eat

so well with such limited supplies !

Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Waitrose and Asda

seem like a distant dream.