Took the bus to Grasse, perfume capital of the earth, and strolled around a bit. Neat town, with an interesting old town. Most of the people here seem to be Algerian, but we opted for crepes instead of kebabs. For once on this trip, mine was better than Donnas! Back home in the late afternoon, and out to Chez Palmyre for dinner. We made a reservation in October as this is the number one restaraunt on TripAdvisor. It's a "family style" restaurant that does one menu for the week. You're elbow to elbow with the table next to you, which is something akward. The food is pretty straight forward country style french. The appetizers were great, Donna had pumpkin soup, and I had a duck confit potato salad which was excellent. Dinner for me was lentils with slow cooked pork, Donna had a beef stew (for lack of a better description) that was amazing. This must have been slow cooked with some salt pork and a lot of red wine! Served with perfectly cooked potatos........fabulous.
Planned on going to the Russian Orthodox chuch today, but it's only open on Saturday nights....the guidebook was wrong on this. It was beautiful from the outside, said to be the most beautiful outsdie of Moscow. While in that neighborhood we went to Brasserie L'occotatine for lunch. Donna's wanted a Salad Nicoise since we got here and that's what she had. Here's where it goes to hell. In the states, when you order Andouille sausage, you get a pork sausage with a bit of kick to it. So I ordered Andouillete sausage with hopes of getting something similar.
Here's Wikipedia's description:
"Andoulitte is a coarse grained tripe sausage made with pork, chitterlings, pepper, wine and onions. Their texture is somewhat rougher than sausages as the content is coarsely cut. their smell may offend people unaccustomed to the dish." A french politician "Politics is like an Andoulittte---it should smell like shit, but not too much of it."
Moving on, yessterday we went to the market at Beaulieu sur Mer, which wasn't anything. so we regrouped and headed to St. Paul de Vence. Neat little hilltop town with a town of art shops and beatiful views from the ramparts. Strolled around and got the bus back. Walked a bit more in town had a quick dinner----Donna had fabulous seafood soup, which is a specialty of the area and back home. Today we're just bumming around the town, doing some last minute shopping and looking forward to our last dinner out tonight. The car comes at 5:10 tomorrow morning for the trip home. Ended up going to the beach as the weather was in the high seventies. Our final dinner was at the same restaurant as last night, only we had the menu. Donna had bignets, and I had the octopus salad. Followed by Donna, mixed pan fried fish and I had rabbit in a reduction of tomaotes and cepes (Mushrooms). Everything was perfect for the fianl meal in France.
It's been a wonderful trip, some new, some old, some different, and who knows when we'll get back....................but we probably will!
Bonsoir and au revior!
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