However, it was planned to have lunch out at one of our favourite restaurants and we are going to the Le Petit Beaumont at Beaumont-en-Auge which is up in the hills and about 35 minutes from here. The back roads which we use to get there wind through some lovely countryside and are pretty much only suitable for cars, and to be honest, cars that are smaller than ours. So we were rather surprised as just as we turned in to one road out came two giant car transporters and of course loaded with new cars and we wondered how the heck did they ever get there. Ten minutes later we came across a very large coach which we had to follow for a few miles before it turned off, most unusual to see this type of motor activity in the hills.
The restaurant was not to busy and they offer a buffet starter with a limited choice of four main courses and then a choice of desert for 15.50 Euros and its always of a good quality. So for good measure we kicked off with two glasses of Kir, which were actually quite large, and Noel discussed his eating requirements with the waitress who then came back and informed him that none of the main dishes were suitable as all they all contained garlic and in certain cases onion and so how about a hamburger, what to do but go for it. Jennifer had the pasta dish which was not only piping hot but quite large and after a buffest starter was struggling towards the end however did manage a desert.
We needed to get some fuel for the car and so headed down the hill to the Total garage in Pont L’Eveque , not the cheapest , but fuel prices seem to be sky rocketing at the moment no doubt due to the Middle East issues again.
When we got back to sun was warm and so we both had a little kip in the awning and then deciding that we had eaten enough that day and settled for a cup of tea and a couple of biscuits.
We then had a brief evening of TV and watched the Chateau DIY and then a very interesting travelogue on the Caribbean and particularly Honduras which seems quite horrendous as this moment from a safety point of view
