What a view from our apartment:
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Our home for a few days
Classic French
Steak and french fries! At the Relais de l’Entrecôte chain of restaurants.
with a red:
Off to Paris
Off to Paris from Avignon on a TGV:
Checked into our apartment and then off to the Apple Store to fix my broken keyboard:
Family and friends
Big day today. Collect girls from their camp, check in at our hotel in Avignon and drop the bags, then off to see Janine in Issirac, then dinner and then back to Avignon. Google map reckons its 343km and 6+ hours on the road. It felt like it:
To get through this gruelling day required some truffles for breakfast at Chez Bruno:
Truffle heaven at Chez Bruno
If you lust for truffle, then Chez Bruno in Lorgues can give you your fix. This place does 130 covers for lunch and then again at dinner, every day, every week. It’s singular role is to serve truffles in a set menu where the only variation is the type of truffle that’s grated onto the dish. In summer, the choices are the summer truffle, and two types of winter truffle which are “freshly frozen”:
Dish of Burrata (a fresh Italian cheese, made from mozzarella and cream) with Caviar de Truffe and tomato confit with a toast with truffles (Aestivum (Front) and Melanosporum (Rear):
Dish of La Pomme de Terre des Montagnes cuite en Robe des Champs, Crème de Truffe Tuber Brumale et une râpée de Truffes Tuber Aestivum (Mountain potato cooked in their skins, cream Truffle Tuber Brumale and Truffle Tuber Aestivum)
