Lepod's Blog

Due to an administrative error we are out of oil for our boiler, which means no heating and no hot water until Monday morning when the fuel man can come. I can’t help feeling it’s partly my fault! Anyway we decided to head somewhere for the weekend and Quiberon sounded nice. It’s a seaside resort on a narrow peninsula sticking out into the Atlantic. We found a very nice little hotel, the Neptune, which is a family run small hotel on the seafront with very nice views and very friendly people. The coast on the west side of the peninsula is known as the côte sauvage, it’s quite wild and a bit like the pancake rocks on the West coast of NZ South island. We walked along there for a bit and then headed off for dinner after apéritifs at our hotel. The food was excellent. Next day we drove back along the côte sauvage, and stopped at a little village for lunch. Expecting a sandwich or something, we found ourselves in a really top class restaurant. We started off with an amuse-bouche consisting of a tiny creme broulee containing seafood, a small dish of raw marinated turbot and a hot shotglass of liquid with fish and crab (I think.) I’ve never had anything like it before. The mains then came out and again were stunning in presentation and taste. Pauline had Turbot on white asparagus with a very nice sauce, and I had tiny shellfish on a bed of seaweed tagliatelli and a fish which I’m not sure what it was, but it was very tasty! It was a great weekend and we managed to get in some hot showers so that was good!