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

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Quail

A gratuitous food post ......
I got some nice quail and marinated them with olive oil, red wine
vinegar, garlic and lots of the local wild thyme that Noah collected
for me then barbecued them over charcoal. Yum! The bean and mushroom
salad was also good as was the rose.
The gite owner turned up as we finished eating so he could clean the
pool. He helped finish a really nice bottle of rose and we discussed
the demise of French soccer.
The general vibe here is that the whole lot- players and management
need to go to make way for new blood. I agree.
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