Fine food and Fun Food in France

 

Most Memorable Snack - Lemon tart, Beziers-Agde Airport

Most memorable Tasty Starter

Avocado Toast, Buffalo Grill, Montpellier

The best selection of Cheese

Cheese trolley, restaurant in Beziers, S France

Cheese trolley at restaurant Hotel Ambassade in Beziers, France, Jan 2024. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

You have cheese before dessert in France (but after dessert in England.

The Most Memorable Tasty Dessert - Violet Ice Cream

It did not look anything special, but the taste was divine.

Violet Ice Cream, restaurant of the Campanile hotel on the outskirts of Montpellier, France

We ordered one of each of two desserts/ Violet ice cream was a novelty for us. It looked like vanilla ice cream, nothing special about the colour or shape.. However, as the old British saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. (Proof, test in this context. Proof of its worth.)  Wonderful, in fact so delightful that we looked it up, to find out the ingredients, where it came from try to buy it, failing that, make it ourselves. Apparently it is a speciality of Toulouse. Toulouse has to be next on our wish list for places to visit.

Campanile Ouest Croix D'Argent, Montpellier

Crox d'argent, cross of silver, is not the hotel's marketing, as I first thought, but the district, the place name.

The Most Memorable Visual Dessert

Lemon Surprise

 Restaurant Carcassonne

Most Memorable Wine

Muscat de Frontignan from the wine shop in Frontignan

Most memorable fresh juices

Orange juice machine from fresh oranges at the Campanile in Montpellier.

Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Orange Juice in the machine at the Dali hotel in Perpignan. (Spelling per pig nan.)

Best Coffee Options

Nut flavoured coffee at the Dali Hotel in Perpignan

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Beziers Airport, Excellent Lemon Cake, Europcar, Learn Esential Car Locking!

 Good little souvenir shop and adjacent cafe which served a nice lemon pound cake,which we later found was a thing of the region of France.

Europcar Collection

The car collections kiosks are all around are forecourt so easy to find. 

However, our Europcar rep wanted to go home on Sunday afternoon. Phoned us while we were having our coffee at the airport to ask where we were and please hurry up. He left us to photograph the car and find out how weverything worked on a hybrid. The whole week we were puzzled, although we had a handy manual. 

Essential Information - Locking Doors From Inside

A pity they didn't give us vital information, such as how to lock the car doors from the inside. Later that week, at a traffic light, an odd looking man ran up and opened the car door. He repeated two words, several times. I speak French. At first I thought he was asking for money in a foreign language, which I do not speak, non European, such as Arabic. 

Then I wondered if he wanted a lift to another town, which was not a place we knew or attended to visit. 

I said, 'No! No understand!' i shook my head, frowning.

I pulled the door shut - and my assailant pushed the door shut, annoyed. As the lights changed, the car behind hooted, and my husband accelerated off.

We stopped at the next convenient pull-in. We looked up in the manual how to lock the doors from inside. A small flat square shape in the elbow height door handle could be depressed to lock the door. Lift it to release the door lock.

Leaving Beziers, taking off in the Ryanair plane, a week later, I was in an empty row. So I moved to the window seat and I took a picture. Low rise airport, two storeys high.

Ryanair plane from window seat, taking off from Beziers airport. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

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