The major event chez nous this week has been going out for dinner on Thursday night to try frogs legs. We went to local restaurant Le Grillon, where you can get all you can eat cuisses de grenouilles served with gratin dauphinoise plus dessert for 25 Euros.
The legs were like mini chicken wings, not dissimilar in taste, maybe a bit fishy and quite fiddly to eat. They were served in a garlicky buttery sauce, that got quite sickly towards the end, but on the whole they were nice. Probably won't order them again, but had to give them a go while we are here. Don't think I'll be trying snails, horse or tete de veau any time soon though...
Winter has sneaked up on us this week. I was extremely disappointed to see that it was colder here than it was in Whitley Bay at one point! Mornings are absolutely freezing, but it's still getting up to about 14 degrees over lunch time (although the intensity of the sun makes it feel warmer). We lose the sun behind a mountain at about 3:45pm and from then it gets colder again.
The added extra of winter coats, hats and gloves just makes the whole getting in and out of the car thing even more fun, which means I haven't really done much this week whilst Stu has been working.
Lily's French has increased ten-fold over the past few weeks. I think she could easily sit and pass a GCSE in it now and get a fairly decent grade. She's got so much more confidence at speaking it and reading just seems to come naturally. At the end of this year, she is definitely going to have surpassed me!
It's become one of her missions in life to find French words that Stu doesn't know, which is quite a difficult feat however she succeeded this week when she came back speaking the French word for cockchafer, which she'd learnt in science. It seems that cockchafer wasn't in Stu's French or English vocabulary, so well done Lil.
The legs were like mini chicken wings, not dissimilar in taste, maybe a bit fishy and quite fiddly to eat. They were served in a garlicky buttery sauce, that got quite sickly towards the end, but on the whole they were nice. Probably won't order them again, but had to give them a go while we are here. Don't think I'll be trying snails, horse or tete de veau any time soon though...
Winter has sneaked up on us this week. I was extremely disappointed to see that it was colder here than it was in Whitley Bay at one point! Mornings are absolutely freezing, but it's still getting up to about 14 degrees over lunch time (although the intensity of the sun makes it feel warmer). We lose the sun behind a mountain at about 3:45pm and from then it gets colder again.
The added extra of winter coats, hats and gloves just makes the whole getting in and out of the car thing even more fun, which means I haven't really done much this week whilst Stu has been working.
Lily's French has increased ten-fold over the past few weeks. I think she could easily sit and pass a GCSE in it now and get a fairly decent grade. She's got so much more confidence at speaking it and reading just seems to come naturally. At the end of this year, she is definitely going to have surpassed me!
It's become one of her missions in life to find French words that Stu doesn't know, which is quite a difficult feat however she succeeded this week when she came back speaking the French word for cockchafer, which she'd learnt in science. It seems that cockchafer wasn't in Stu's French or English vocabulary, so well done Lil.
Not just a pretty face
We're having a quiet weekend now as Stu is off to Paris first thing on Monday morning for two nights for work.
Luke is due his next set of jabs on Tuesday, which should be fun as I'll have to take Max along too making it about 100 times more difficult to hear what is being said to me.
Better finish up now as Max has just appeared at the doorway with a razor trying to shave his chin...
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