A lazy day in Montpellier

Not a huge amount to say as we have just been happily mooching around town, without any deadlines or necessary tasks. We wandered the narrow streets where there are little specialty shops with local products, and are getting to know our way round and to our hotel which is very central and handy, but was hard to spot when we first arrived…

It is still cold, specially when not doing serious walking (though my watch says I have walked 13 kms today, and that’s not including walking somewhere to dinner soon)…and today is cloudy, with rays of sunshine peeping through now and then, and even a few raindrops as we arrived back just now.

We stopped twice on park benches for kindle sessions, but I found it too cold to really enjoy sitting outside. Even after I went back and put on an extra layer. Amr has been living in his puffer jacket - I didn’t even bring one! I have plenty of layers, but didn’t think I’d need to wear them all at once! We had a delicious lunch - we shared a large salad with avocado, salmon, soy beans, a rice/grain/seed section and leaves, with Asian tasting flavours…just right. And we walked in the Jardin Botanique….that’s about all to report really. Tomorrow a train to Barcelona, leaves here at 4.30pm and arrives there at 7.30.

Addendum..just back from dinner and have to add because it was really good…French cuisine seems to have moved to fusion, like everywhere else, and you order dishes that are surprising, and delicious. Like our lunch salad had Asian flavours, tonight I ordered an entrée of grilled eggplant, but it came surrounded with almonds, pomegranate, feta crumbles….and my lamb dish was on couscous, with honey/ginger carrots…yum…Amr had his tartare de boeuf, his last chance before Spain, and his entrée was tomatoes, peppers with soft boiled egg…not just the classic French, but these are French eateries.Read more