Novotel La Rochelle Centre

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... booths have been helpful (when they&#8217;re open), but they usually are not. We&#8217;ve also been cycling almost through the various regions about 1 a day. So if I do stop for information it&#8217;s only for the one day and will not help us in planning the next as we&#8217;ll be out of the region&#8230;Had a little marital spat with Brian the other day about how routine our lives have become - LOL. <br>

... I didn't photograph all the things I cooked, but in some cases I needed to remember how we put the meal together on the plate so I tooks some pics to make it easier to replicate these dishes in future. Nerdy I know, but you will thank me if you come round for dinner one night and the food looks really pretty!<br><br>xox Hannah

... and I would bring in the courses and then Id sit and eat too, David would join us occasionally or otherwise do the washing up. One definite benefit of doing a cooking school over noemal cooking is someone else does the washing up!<br><br>During the break in the middle of the day I'd read outside in the shade (such beautiful weathr whilst I was there), go for walks in the french countryside and pick some blackberries or get a lift into La Rochelle or Surgeres to ...

This was<br>another disaster journey really. We started late after an extended chat with a couple from Ireland and set off under the command of TomTom taking a left out of the car park to our destination 40km away.<br>After two hundred metres TomTom found its feet and continued its reboot problem and we had resort to using GoogleMapping again. As GoogleMaps does not re-route we had to follow its directions to the letter.<br>Dutifully, and as ...

... mussels, cockles, and some...thing else. Impressive and tasty indeed. Then it was dessert and coffee time: un crème brulé pour moi, s'il vous plait, et un grand crème (coffee with milk). And wow! Both were really good, but that crème brulé? Just... wow. Amazing. I am sooo glad I chose that, even though Amy's looked amazing too... Then it was home time, so we walked Nadine home ...

I had ma première classe today. It wasn't a difficult class, although I was still quite nervous. We had to pair up and ask each other a whole bunch of questions, and we then had to present our partner to the class and explain all the stuff we found out about them. I made one 'notable error'. I said Mairan (from Brazil) studied 'langes étranges appliquées' instead of 'lange étrangères appliquées', the difference being between ...

... cidadezinha considerada obscura ate pelos franceses, chamada Saint Ciers sur Gironde, a uns 100km de Bordeaux.A escola de samba dividiu espaço com carros alegoricos de colheita de uvas e de um povo a carater da Bretanha.( o que nao é o caso em Bordeaux, que fica na Gironde.) e, de longe foi quem mais fez sucesso! Os 2 puxadores de samba eram franceses legitimos, um falando um Portugues bonitinho com sotaque e o outro nao falando absolutamente NADA de Portugues! Ele ...

... and walked around an outdoor market eating an authentic French baguette. If only I had a bike too... Back to the ship for dinner and to head out for our next stop. The seas are rough today from the wind and weather, so another sleepless night for me ahead. At least dinner was exciting - bananas foster and more creme brulees for dessert (Jacques was better though). Onto Ireland...

... French people. For lunch we had hamburgers at an American restaurant. We went back to the beach and around 6pm we left. I had a very bad sunburn. The worst in my life actually. That night we had dinner at a restaurant near the ocean and had fish lasagna. It was great. That night my legs were killing me. Ms Wolf gave me some aloe vera, but I ended up putting wet towels on my legs to get to sleep.<br>