Rouge Spicy Meatballs

I was looking for mince to use up my onions and tomato, then I came across a nice looking pack of spicy meatball.  The mark down stickers were covering the brand, they were from the Yorkshire Meatball Co.  I cooked them with 1.5kg of onion and 4 tins of tomato, and when I started eating them, they were still noticeably spicy!  If someone just cooked them with normal recipe, it would have been potent!  I was trying to look for these meatballs again, but they could not be found in the supermarket's website anymore!  I will be more careful when I next see spicy meatballs!

Power Steering Fault II

On my way to work, I turned a corner and the power steering fault light came up.  I was not happy.  The power steering was faulty about a year ago, and I could not believe it was happening.  I kept driving down, and contemplating contacting the garage last repaired it, or calling AA again.  Then just before I turn into work, the fault light went off and it was operating normally again.  I could not work out what caused it, let's hope it doesn't play up again!

Jane Austen Tenner

I was using the cash machine at work and a Jane Austen tenner came out.  I knew it was coming out, but I didn't know it had already come out.  It is quite nice looking note.  The canteen machines however would not take the new note, so I ended up topping up the card with £20.

No Meerkat 2017

I had use a website for insurance comparison for the past two years, and this year, it did not give me the best quote, so I won't get a meetkat toy this year...

Homemade Nutella Crêpe

As inspired by our trip, also for the fact we did not eat a sweet crêpe when we were in France, we made some at home.  My pancake machine is small, but it did the trick, maybe I really should get some spray oil.  The Nutella did return to normal consistence after being warmed up, I really got to use up my old Nutella!

Montpellier Tour - Day 4

We took the last opportunity to rest.  We checked out as late as we could and headed into town. 

Just about everything was shut on the Sunday, the street was very quiet.  Sarah found on the internet about the flea market by the aqueduct.  The flea market was celebrating the 5th anniversaries, there was some free food and drink.  We got a bit of bread and passed on the wine.  The offerings were interesting.  Sarah and I were both tempted by a few things, and those remotely interested us were extortionate, so we left empty handed.  We swung by the botanical garden before looking for lunch.

We stopped at the same square where we had sandwich the other day.  This time we opted for a French restaurant.  I had the boring chicken and fries with a glass of rose wine, and Sarah had goat cheese starter and monk fish.  We waited for a long time for the food, luckily the restaurant gave out olives and I had an apple earlier.

The rose wine was very blend.  Sarah enjoyed her cheese and monk fish.  We were both full of fries by the end.  I wish we had room for a chocolate parfait, but we again could not find room for a dessert!  We also only managed a 1.5 hours lunch fare.  In hindsight, I would love to see the look on a French if I tried to make a chip butty! 

I tried to get Sarah to buy another salad for the plane, but she worried about the hot temperature would spoil it.  I saw a palmier the first day, and we bought one just before we left town.  I grew up with palmier in my local bakery, and my friend comes to associate me and my local bakery with palmier.  So I took a picture with it under a French flag and sent it along.

Sarah found the viewpoint above the conference centre, and we had a view of the city.  We could have hung out a little longer if it was not for the relentless Sun.  We did a little people watching in the shade before going back to the hotel.

At the hotel, we debated if we should sit outside for the breeze or sit inside away from the element.  We sat outside for the bit, but the breeze was very unreliable, we went back inside.  We continued our restful trip with more lazing and reading.

We went to the airport with lots of time to spare.  We finished off the apples, oat cakes and water before we boarded.  While we were boarding, we were informed the plane was full, so we resigned to not being able to sit together for 2 hours.  Then when we boarded, I had am empty sit next to me, and there were another 4 empty seats at the exit row!  I jumped to see Sarah at the first opportunity and she agreed to move to sit with me made me very happy.  I ate the palmier on the plane, it tasted okay.

We landed and we got out quite quickly, we got the car and went home.   Quite a relaxing and smooth trip.

Montpellier Tour - Day 3

Since we thought we comprehensively did the town and we planned to go to the beach.

We had a slow breakfast with the hot chocolate and I had another nap.

We finally went to the beach, it was hot and we went straight to the recommended restaurant.  The outdoor dining area was full and we settled for a table just inside the patio windows.  We had to Google just about every item on the menu.  We opted for more French food, I had seafood soup and squid, Sarah had beef stew and fruit salad.  Mimicking the French, we managed a 1.5 hours lunch fare.

The Sun was relentless.  We walked along the beach and the market.  We bought souvenirs from Lidl.  Unlike the Aldi in Germany, the French does not have an automatic dispenser, they do have an interesting bread bin, where you move the bread to a chute.

We went home, and we were too late for a snooze.  We rested and went out to a recommended crêperie Le Kreisker.  On our way to Le Kreisker, we watched the 1 Euro crêperie, it has a rotating 5-crepe table with auto-batter dispenser, it seemed fast, but the crêpe maybe cooked unevenly, and there were a lot of cleaning as a lot of pancake makers were overheating empty.

Le Kreisker was busy and we waited for 15 minutes for a table while we consulted the menu.  We did not need too much Googling as the menu was translated.  I went straight for La Raclette and I recommended ratatouille to Sarah.  I wish we had the chestnut crêpe for dessert, but we were still very full from lunch!  What a shame that they are not open on Sunday!