The chinese garden

We enjoy going to Le Mans now and again, firstly as there is the biggest hypermarket there called Auchan and two of my favourite eating places are conveniently situated nearby.  These are Buffalo grill, I know shocking pun but they do burgers and steaks which are fabulous. Our other favourite is the chinese restaurant The [...]

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The fishing day

Sorry for the delay in writing about our excellent day on Bastille day, 14th July.  The truth is that I had a sudden stampede of customers wanting new broadband fitted and computers fixed that had gone wonky.  On top of that my wife came home on saturday after teaching french to a small group of [...]

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More eating out

This is just a very quick note to say that even as I wrote the last paragraph of the last blog, we got yet another invite out for dinner.  However even before that I had forgotten that this coming saturday we had volunteered to help with the setting up of the fishing day held on [...]

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French Sunday lunch

Even though we have lived in France for less than 6 years I think it is fair to say that we have dined out and entertained more in that time than we ever did when we lived in the UK, so we will have been married 32 years this very month actually and spent 26 [...]

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Dorade royale with a beurre blanc sauce

Hopefully you have read my summer holiday special edition and you will recall the beurre blanc sauce we had at a restaurant in Granville. Now I have always avoided trying to make it myself because all the books and the celeb chefs bang on about how difficult it is and how it is very unstable,  [...]

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Holiday special edition

Hi folks, just got back from a glorious week on the Normandy coast.  The weather was stonking and if you are into seafood then this is the place for you. We stayed at a new apartment in Julouville that is owned by our friends and neighbours Christane and Robert,  we were a minutes walking distance [...]

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