We’ve been in Spain for two days now and I’m still accidentally busting out with “Bonjour”. It’s hard to know exactly what to speak here in San Sebastian. Spanish seems to be ok, but we lost our mini phrase book after our first boozy lunch. Politically better is Basque but it has the added benefit […]
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By George they don’t make it easy to get into Bordeaux city. After learning to drive on the other side of the road with implements on the other side to instinct and having to thank me several times for teaching him to drive a manual car there’s another challenge for the Hungry One to mount. […]
If you wanted to lose weight, you wouldn’t go to Toulouse. In our honeymoon quest to become fat and happy this seems like a sensible place to stop on our way over to Bordeaux. France’s fourth largest city, Toulouse is also close to Carcassonne, and like Carcassone,Toulouse calls itself home to Cassoulet. Cassoulet is a […]
The Paris supermarket may have had me at hello, but that was before I met Les Halles. Lyon’s covered central food market helps you understand why Lyon has more restaurants per capita than any other French city. They’re serous about food. I’m wandering around like Augustus Gloot in Wonka Land. My mouth’s open, I don’t […]
The Hungry One has just returned to our white square table. It’s so wide we can only just hold hands across it like proper honeymooners. “You have to go to the bathroom “ he says. “ I’m serious. There are nature sounds, hand cream and two types of cologne- lavender and one they’ve called intense. […]