Lepod's Blog

In the mornings I usually walk down to the boulangerie in our street and buy some bread, which is still warm. The lady knows me now and smiles although the conversation is rather limited. “Bonjour madame.” “Un pain cereales s’il vous plait.” “Bonne journée madame.” That sort of thing.

I have bread or toast for breakfast, Pauline has muesli. For lunch we have bread and cheese and tomatoes, or bread and an egg, occasionally baked beans with sausages, but these are no ordinary baked beans, these are cooked in duck fat for some reason and are very tasty. The cheese is trois laits, which is made from goats milk, sheep milk and cows milk and we buy it from the local market. In the photo there is also one of the little French baby cars which are 400cc two cylinder diesels and are even smaller than a Smart car. It is possible to buy them restricted to 50 km/h in which case you do not need a licence! The hotel just down the road from us has a truck version as per this photo:

For dinner we are somewhat spoiled for choice as there’s quite a lot of variety in the meat sold here, for instance the other night we had duck casserole as duck was on special. Another time we had a pair of quails. The fresh fish from either the market or the supermarket is fantastic, we had fresh sardines one night, Pauline gutted them and pulled the backbone out and I dipped them in flour and fried them – delicious! You can buy trout here and I love it, like salmon only much more delicate. We generally go to the local market on Saturday and stock up on vegetables, cheese and sometimes fish. Here’s some photos of the market and a crab, maybe coming to get you!