Lunch Outside Atlast!!!!

2nd May 2012 (Wednesday)

It was my French class today and my Canadian teacher friend, Shari D would be very pleased with me.

The class started with the review our last assignment which was the composition that I wrote about “Mon dimanche parfait” or “My Perfect Sunday”…all about our day spent at the sea in Collioure.

If you remember what I wrote previously, this is the composition that “I and Honey” both lost some of our sleep because of my tossing and turning the previous Thursday and on Friday morning  I rewrote my story.

The professor marks in “red” pen and even though red was evident; the comment ”Excellent travail!” was written on my short essay.

We then ventured to Goujounac, a lovely village with no commerce except for the “Hostellerie de Goujounac”, which is a hotel, restaurant, bar, operated by a Dutch couple and a local French chef. It has an outside patio in a garden setting  situated in the centre of the village; where we enjoyed a lovely lunch.

Piping hot vegetable soup

Beef , mashed potatoes, green beans wrapped in bacon , carrots & roasted tomato....against our better judgement we all ordered the infamous "French steak", perfectly cooked but tough...need to order Entre-cote or Filet de Beef....even with this mistake our meals were tasty. and delicious.

Finished with Creme Brulee.

We walked thru the lanes and streets of the village, and discovered a group of ladies in the midst of a painting workshop provided by Mercedes Choufoer.  

Her Galerie – Atelier Mercedes is located in Marminiac.

http://www.mercedes-art.nl/

The village street names are all hand-painted ceramic plaques and we discovered this amazing bust upon a gate.

We had dinner at our gite this evening and later Melody from California

and her French boyfriend, Julian joined for wine and dessert.