Our first full day here, and we spent it on the beach. We spent a short time in the supermarket in the morning, but Neisha and Emma wanted to get down to the beach as quickly as was possible, in order to get as much sun time as possible. Sadly Emma failed to keep herself properly hydrated, and has ended up feeling very much the worse for wear by the next morning. We're trying to make sure she drinks loads of squash, in the hope that she'll be good for the beach again later.
Actually, even I felt exhausted after all the surf time, and when I woke up this morning my legs were complaining bitterly about having been exercised without any warning!
We took Neisha to the market this morning, in the hope of getting a cup for her to drink her squash from, but the usual seller wasn't there! Neither was the large stall selling household items – I realise this is something one doesn't need, but I always love to see the range of stuff being sold as “useful”! We did, thank goodness, find the nice Vietnamese man selling prawn crackers – this year I decided to have one of his “spring rolls”. This is, of course, nothing like a spring roll you'd find in the UK, being a roll of lettuce, with mint, round some rice and beansprouts, and some prawns on the outside, all held together with some kind of what looked like edible cling film! Quite delicious! The market wasn't a complete bust, but I was disappointed to find many of the stalls I used to like missing, and many more clothes stalls up.
And may I, for a moment please, have a little go at the prices? DAMN, eating out in France is SO not cheap any more. Well, I suppose I shouldn't say cheap, but inexpensive. It's always been somewhere you can get a really good meal for not a whole load of money, but driving into Cap Ferret I passed an erstwhile reasonably priced restaurant, to find that their Moules-Frites menu is €12.90. This rather puts into perspective the menu €7.90 in the Buffalo eatery, which I thought was just adequately priced. Since the restaurant down the road with those moules has other menus starting at 18 euros, can you forgive me if I think this is pretty damn pricey? The exchange rate is actually pretty close to £1 to €1 which means that an average menu is pretty much £18 - is it me, or is that expensive? And stuff in the market's not cheap, either!
Rant over.
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