I would like to say one thing about yesterday. After we had showered, etc, it was time for dinner 8:00p. France time. Genvieve didn't want to eat at the hotel because it was too expen
sive, so we stroll down the streets looking for a place to dine. Every place we saw and she read the menu(because I have no idea what it says)
She would say not here. After several of these I said let's go back to the hotel and see if we can find something light at that restaurant.
Now I must digress for a moment. There were only two people in the hotel when we arrived, the hotel clerk and the other was the restaurant waitress. They saw us a total of 5 times within an hour as we first walked to the hotel to see if this was the one, next parked our car in front of them, unloaded, said bon jour many times.
Sooo when we came back to eat Genvieve said to the waitress who was standing on the sidewalk next to the sidewalk cafe that had not a patron in sight "we're back, we'd like to sit here and order" She quitely walks up to our table and says in all her French accent "Do you have a reservation!!!!!" I could not quit laughing. She was not kidding, but she let us eat anyway.
ENTER DAY 2 :
We get up at a reasonable hour I thought until I find out it's 11:30, half the day is gone and we hadn't eaten breakfast! We got dressed and headed for the centre as the locals know it. Genvieve took her GPS tracker on her watch so we wouldn't get lost. Along the way I kept hearing her mumbling about couldn't get it. Every restaurant we went to she would read the outside menu and say not this one. Well guess what they stop serving at 2:00 & don't open again til dinner around 7. So she had "not this one" outted us for lunch. But, hey, we could have a picnic in the park
that was across the street from our hotel,Okay? Sure you just have to go to one store for the bread, another for the wine, another for Quiche, and oh yes we must have fromagge, and all of the places are far apart. This was from the lady that thought the hotel restaurant was too expensive but we wound up spending 60 euros on our picnic! And all that mumbling I was hearing along the way, it was her GPS tracker couldn't find a sattelite to position on. Yeah, your right we were having a bit of difficulty finding our way back to the hotel, but hey, what the heck we had 10pounds of food and drink we were carrying around plus a 3liter of zero coke that she bought when she went into a
store to get napkins, forks, etc. it was a breeze, NOT.
We got to the park around 7:00 and had our repast. By this time I could've eaten the napkins. It was great. We went out later in search of a Creperie for dessert. The one in the park was closed. We then ventured toward the Centre again and found out we could have been there this afternoon in a third of the time, we had walked the wrong way. We did find a Creperie and each had one and walked back to the hotel full. It was a great day.
sive, so we stroll down the streets looking for a place to dine. Every place we saw and she read the menu(because I have no idea what it says)She would say not here. After several of these I said let's go back to the hotel and see if we can find something light at that restaurant.
Now I must digress for a moment. There were only two people in the hotel when we arrived, the hotel clerk and the other was the restaurant waitress. They saw us a total of 5 times within an hour as we first walked to the hotel to see if this was the one, next parked our car in front of them, unloaded, said bon jour many times.
Sooo when we came back to eat Genvieve said to the waitress who was standing on the sidewalk next to the sidewalk cafe that had not a patron in sight "we're back, we'd like to sit here and order" She quitely walks up to our table and says in all her French accent "Do you have a reservation!!!!!" I could not quit laughing. She was not kidding, but she let us eat anyway.
ENTER DAY 2 :
We get up at a reasonable hour I thought until I find out it's 11:30, half the day is gone and we hadn't eaten breakfast! We got dressed and headed for the centre as the locals know it. Genvieve took her GPS tracker on her watch so we wouldn't get lost. Along the way I kept hearing her mumbling about couldn't get it. Every restaurant we went to she would read the outside menu and say not this one. Well guess what they stop serving at 2:00 & don't open again til dinner around 7. So she had "not this one" outted us for lunch. But, hey, we could have a picnic in the park
that was across the street from our hotel,Okay? Sure you just have to go to one store for the bread, another for the wine, another for Quiche, and oh yes we must have fromagge, and all of the places are far apart. This was from the lady that thought the hotel restaurant was too expensive but we wound up spending 60 euros on our picnic! And all that mumbling I was hearing along the way, it was her GPS tracker couldn't find a sattelite to position on. Yeah, your right we were having a bit of difficulty finding our way back to the hotel, but hey, what the heck we had 10pounds of food and drink we were carrying around plus a 3liter of zero coke that she bought when she went into a
store to get napkins, forks, etc. it was a breeze, NOT.We got to the park around 7:00 and had our repast. By this time I could've eaten the napkins. It was great. We went out later in search of a Creperie for dessert. The one in the park was closed. We then ventured toward the Centre again and found out we could have been there this afternoon in a third of the time, we had walked the wrong way. We did find a Creperie and each had one and walked back to the hotel full. It was a great day.
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As I read this and laugh I am also remembering similar escapades over there with Donner!! Must be those Burford genes! Keep that blog coming...S
I'm having visions of the Griswolds in "European Vacation".
Deux mots: Arc doree
trois mots - WTH??
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