Bonjour
We have been enjoying a visit from Australian friends and so the last week has been an opportunity to show them some of the favourite thefrenchfeed highlights in the flesh.
They bought the good weather with them and every day has been fine and warm(ish). Yesterday we headed west and stopped at our favourite tiny boat harbour at Port Recine (the smallest in France) and always very photogenic.
Every road trip seems to coincide with peak flowering on a particular plant or shrub. Recently it was the hydrangeas which are now starting to decline, but these have been overtaken by fuschias which grow along the roadside as big hedges. It must be the perfect climate for them because, like the hydrangeas, they thrive in places that are clearly not getting much TLC.
And we finally got to dine at Auberge des Grottes – a restaurant that is on the edge of the coast at the Jobourg Nose. It is pretty remote and takes a bit of driving down narrow country lanes to get there, but they are doing something right because you can’t get in without a booking. This is what it looks like on a nice day.
And here are some of the dishes we ordered……
YUM
We obviously have become accustomed to the weather – yesterday’s conversation:
M: Are you wearing shorts today?
L: Yes, it’s going to get up to 20 degrees.
Might be time for a quick trip home.
À bientôt
L & M.
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