Glyn and Gill (above) our lovely next door neighbours arrived yesterday afternoon, for a summer visit, and came round last night to help finish off all the leftovers. A culinary visit down memory lane, with nice people.
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After a well deserved lie-in we met with Jill and Harry for lunch at Alexandre in Nîmes to celebrate Jill's birthday. We'd been looking forward to the visit for several weeks. Alexandre is the best restaurant in Nîmes and very worthy of its two Michelin stars. We all chose the menu Dégustation (72 euros) and afterwards couldn't agree on how many courses (we included the 3 little offerings they bring you with your aperos). In total it was either 10 or 12. Excellent food, excellent service an excellent restaurant. We were last to leave and in trying to pay the bill we were told that the credit card machine was not working. No problem they said come back tomorrow. As I said, an excellent restaurant.
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Thoroughly stuffed and looking forward to a night with our feet in the fridge we met Alain on our way back into the village and he invited us back for a drink. Bugger. Of all the things I wanted to do, drinking was right at the bottom of the list, but hey, he's a lovely man, on his own at the moment, so a drink it was.
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