What are we doing?

This has been in planning for a long time. Long service leave had to be taken, letters written to schools, bikes bought and upgraded, camping gear sorted, the vagaries of the SNCF elucidated and, of course, a whole lot of work work and housework completed.
If all goes well we will fly to Paris, train to Bordeaux then commence cycling (each on our own bike now that Noah is capable) east and south till we get to Provence 7 weeks later.
Along the way we will camp, stay in gites (one in the Dordogne and one in the Luberon), follow the market days and eat and drink very well. Hopefully the Euro crashes!
If the kids have any say, and they usually do, we will eat a pain au chocolat (chocolate croissant) each morning

Monday, June 14, 2010

Les tripes!

I love tripe and it's really hard to get at a butcher let alone a
restaurant in tassie. So, I'm in heaven eating tripes de Castelnaudary
here in a brasserie in Mirepoix south of Carcassonne with rain falling
outside.
Today we'll break our camp here, sadly, and head to the coast near
Perpignan.
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5 comments:

  1. Owen and Sue from Hobart.June 14, 2010 at 5:15 AM

    Stan. I cannot say I share your passion for tripe, and looking the pictured dish did not do any thing to further recruit me. The wine was a lovely colour though. Owen.

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  2. AnonymousJune 14, 2010 at 8:02 PM

    NOW you have convinced me of the french cooking genius - edible tripe! Hope the wrist is not too painful now Alice. Am loving the blog!
    Jeff

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  3. UnknownJune 15, 2010 at 2:33 AM

    Will give that tripe a miss, merci - but that's the first thing you've mentioned that I would.
    Well school is back tomorrow, Alice, and your teachers are busy writing reports.
    Hope you are managing to eat with your left hand - and speaking beaucoup de phrases françaises. I won't expect you to keep a journal after all.

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  4. AnonymousJune 15, 2010 at 6:19 AM

    yeah - no tripe in this family.......we are in Meleka, food everywhere (jonny would like to eat for 48n hours straght and we know he could!!!)Just left the Tioman Island today - coral reefs, trutles, shark reefs, tropicalfish,monkeys, swimming all day and $3 cocktails ( heaven and no cars either).Hope your arm is not to itchy where your cast is Alice ( knittings needles are good for that!!)Ruben wants to know where there picture of the frogs legs and sanils are????

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  5. Dorothy SteaneJune 17, 2010 at 9:16 PM

    I had tripe at a street stall in KL in March (along with a bit of tendon and some meat balls and noodles). It was very nice! Our butcher has tripe every so often ... I'm sure he'd get it in for you if you asked for it!

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