Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Only in Onlay

A 330km drive to Onlay and our next stop at the farm house.  It's huge and the back yard is massive.  Newly renovated, it had everything we needed including, deck chairs, BBQ and an electric bug zapper/fly swat.

 
Here is the electronic tennis racket / bug zapper...keep away from drunkards!  This thing zapps blowies in a split millisecond!


We enjoyed our terrines and quiche lorraine with Leffe and some sort of bubbles for me.  Next night Simon was back cooking the BBQ just like at home - poor buggar.


Haven't seen ANY takeaway coffees in France yet and truffles are 750 - 1000 Euros / kg!

So enjoying the cafe/bar/tabac scene - spending LOTS and LOTS of time sitting around immersing ourselves in the French culture.  Good to see lots of smokers here too.


WARNING WHEN DRIVING IN "OUTBACK" FRANCE
Our car was very low on diesel so we tried to fill at the local servo.  In the country villages, the servos are unmanned.  Just put your credit card in and fill up.... only we tried that and a french voice kept blurting something at me and spat out our Travelex Cash Passport Mastercard.
After enquiring at a local fromagerie where the owner was Dutch and spoke English, we found out that they only accept French cards.... What the!?

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