Monthly Archives: March 2018

We left Brittany for the battlefields of Normandy… and all that jazz

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Mont-Saint-Michel

Mont-Saint-Michel

Saturday, 3 March 2018 to Saturday, 10 March 2017
It was Saturday and Philippe and family had a surprise in store for us. We were treated to jazz at the Chez Constance Restaurant in a little village by the coast called Plougrescant. And all that jazz was accompanied by an excellent dinner of too many things to mention. What stood out though was the cabbage… now who would enthuse about cabbage you may ask. But, that red cabbage was simply delectable, and the owner did not get why we were so enthralled by it. “It’s just red cabbage boiled slowly for six hours, nothing added, nothing subtracted… “ was his response to our recipe request. Be as it may, that stuff was amazing! Continue reading →

We bought a car in France… No seriously…

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Domaine du Dourvan

Domaine du Dourvan

Tuesday, 20 February 2018 to Friday, 2 March 2017
As I concluded in a previous post titled Waking up in beautiful Brittany, in the amazing Côtes-d’Armor, the fact that Philippe was so immensely generous to lend us his car, was to be a fatal mistake… But not in a negative way though!

Having had the use of Philippe’s car during the past plenty weeks there was no way of going back. When we originally came to France last year in March we had grand illusions of buying a car but decided it was premature and settled on getting to know and using the public transport systems on offer. And boy, did we! Continue reading →