So we went to the pictures and ate out last night; Garden State at the Utopia – good flick with one of my favourite actors in it, Zapp Brannigan or whatever that bloke out of Scrubs is called (OK, not so ‘favourite’ that I can remember his name). Then Tapas at TapaLocas much to the derision of the cooks at work today. Apparently the grub there is ‘rubbish’, not that any of them have eaten there. Still, they’re impressed that TL did 900 covers a day during the festival last year. I just think about the PBD (Poor Bloody Dishwasher).
Sunday night we ate at Les Artistes, just down the road from here in front of the Hotel d’Europe. We ate in the square and very pleasant it was too, with a decent menu for EUR15. Snails, chicken in wild mushroom sauce, good ice cream and wine at EUR6 a pichet – pretty decent for the centre of Avignon.
OK, Delphine only got two filets of rouget for her main course, but then rouget isn’t cheap compared to chicken, so I got a large portion. Nice cocktails too, once we persuaded the waitres that, yes yes you do have cocktails here, we’ve had them before, they’re on the ice cream menu.
Lots of shopping yesterday, groceries at Lidl (I love shopping there, you fill your trolley and get a bill for EUR21 at the end of it all. Bargain), lotsa makeup and stuff at Yves Rocher (not for me, I’m afraid, I took the opportunity to listen to all the CDs on trial at Virgin next door. Bad customer that I am I noted down all the good ones and will buy them from allofmp3.com.
Recent discovery: The Blind Boys of Alabama, aka the Alabama Blind Boys. Really cool gospel blues; OK, the lyrics, as we say in French, are nul – but boy, those boys can’t half sing. Strong work, chaps.