Life in France

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Thursday, July 14, 2005

Fète Nationale

Today is a huge holiday in France and so in keeping with the tradition i am taking a day off as well. The guests that should have arrived yesterday have not! they telephoned last night to say that they were too tired to continue driving and had stopped about 130 miles away! Don't you just love paying customers? still, better to stop than to carry on driving when really tired. At least it gave us both a chance to visit friends in the village for an aperro, very nice it was too! leisurely drinking until 9pm then home for some food outside at the table on the terace. It was still 28°c at 11:30pm! wonderful.

Today the guests are planning to arrive sometime in the afternoon so i am off into the village to partake of an apéritif offered by M. Le Mayor and the committee de fete ( it would be rude not too) and then this evening we shall take the gusets out to see the band that will be playing in the local town (5km away) which will be followed at minuit by a feu d'artifice so that should be a nice easy day. All i have to do now is prepare tonights meal of salad, roast lamb with rosemary and garlic, new potatoes, cheese and fresh white peaches with creme fraiche and of course red wine!!! Hopefully that will be ok, if not it's hard lines 'cos that's all there will be!

cheers

2 Comments:

  • At 7:00 pm, Blogger R J Adams said…

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