Tag: land of cheese and chocolate

We all took a pootle to Annemasse, in France, just south of the border in Geneva. The goal was to buy Bean a new bike, and have a look at the fabled French shopping we kept hearing about.

Our satnav is an evil bitch that insists on sending us through back alleys and goat passes.

I think we’ll need to give it a proper second chance, because what we’ve seen of it was a dive!  Still, we finally got to Decathlon. It was rammed, and it took us a while to get served. In the end though, Bean got a shiny new bike for a third of the price we’d have paid here. We also stopped at a Casino supermarket. Very decent prices, esp on the meat. We stocked up on pork loins and got a turkey breast roast.

So yeah. Mixed reviews for a first visit, but it has potential if we can find a better way to get there.

But you can’t take the Leicester out of the woman. How else would you explain belching out loud at a Michelin 2-star restaurant?

Company aside, the food was brilliant. Veal in a lemongrass soup, foie gras with strawberries and a balsamic glaze, grilled fish on tomatoes and fennel with a basil foam, bison with spring veg and a mushroom emulsion, a very nice cheese board and a chocolate and cardamom sorbet. And wine. Lots of very nice wine.

We like the Petit Manoir.