THE JOYS OF SPRING

Looking through last year’s photos makes me think that Spring was good in Le Grand Pressigny last year.  So much sunshine so early in the year – magic!

 

Plus flowers in bloom, way before they would normally be in flower in the UK.  Tulips, my favourite flower, rarely make an appearance in Derbyshire before May.

 

Judging by the content of the pictures we obviously spent a lot of time out and about and in the village.  The chairs come out onto the pavement at the PreHisto bar as soon as sun is warm enough for sitting out, to tempt people to sit in the square and have a drink.  It always works for us!

 

According to the photos, on the 24th March we had lunch in Loches at this restaurant, the Côté Tour, which opened the previous year I believe.  It’s name comes from being situated near to the Tour Saint Antoine, a sixteenth century bell tower in the centre of town. The restaurant used to be a garage and the paper place mats on the tables have a picture of how it looked at the beginning of the last century, a nice touch.

 

In the photos it looks like we had the menu du jour, quiche followed by roast pork with mushrooms then prune flan for dessert - delicious!  Also excellent value at just under €13 each.  Plus a little more for wine and coffee of course.

 

So this is my first attempt for years at writing a blog post using Blogger.  I expect I'll have to get used to it.  Even as I write this it has decided that my text should be written centrally instead of starting on the left.  Hey ho.