Buggered old geezer does France...

gerarddwatts said:
Slighly more boring day today, some more motorway, but the plippetypop gained us access and egress....or perhaps it was the Crit D'air sticker....something worked anyway.
Also managed to avoid les flics doing a speed check on an 80....beat the hoors and went past at 70 ish....thats another advantage of being in a car really, no sense of having to get on and create some excitement on fairly flat and boring roads.
The whole idea of the trip was to meander about and see the parts less travelled, and we have managed that so far.
After getting established in our room we had a donder up to the lac....it .is indeed enormous.
Sadly have to condemn the MRA nav app as useless. The route planning website is great, I have put all the routes into the Nav5 and it has worked flawlessly.
The MRA has worked....sometimes.....and it is this instability which renders it worthless. It worked great today until coffee. Turned it off to check phone for emails, Monzo or whatever at coffee time, and when we resumed it just would not do anything, eventually just a sullen grey screen. I turned it, and the phone off and on to try and bump start it...nah.
I eventually uninstalled it, re installed it and signed in....it had noneof the offline maps I spent some time downloading, nor the update to the maps I installed a couple of days ago...this makes sense as if the maps weren't there it couldn't show an up date! It would have been a real pain if I were relying on it on a bike.
Maybe try again in a few months when they have fixed it.
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Just a thought have you downloaded the map of France for areas of bad internet coverage.
 
To supper...magnifique!
Clearly a destination restaurant. Everything done right....sommeliers, properly dressed staff, decent menu and extraordinary wine list...20230715_195825.jpg

Carpaccio of beef...
 
:drool :drool :drool Just out of interest, Gerry, how much did that meal cost? For comparison, we had lunch with friends yesterday at a well known restaurant in the new town. 2 thin pepper steaks, a burger, a large steak tartare, three desserts and a coffee. Plus a bottle of Cotes de Rhone. Decent service and the grub was OK but not spectacularly good. £140 inc service.
 
gerarddwatts said:
To supper...magnifique!
Clearly a destination restaurant. Everything done right....sommeliers, properly dressed staff, decent menu and extraordinary wine list...View attachment 273463

Carpaccio of beef...
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Had that dish in Italy a couple of weeks ago with a cracking bottle of red wine it was beautiful.
 
A trundle up through the Champagne, managed to find a LeClerc with a supply of tins of Confit de Canard to keep in stock....surprising how many we went in to find empty spaces in the shelves....also succumbed to a couple of bottles of calva.
Nice quiet Sunday morning journey, some lovely villages and sights...20230716_095625.jpg
 
Across the rolling fields of Champagne , through the edge of the Ardennes into Belgium to rest at Spa.
Awful busy!
A very genteel and historic town, full of noisy motobikists, trying to be noisier than the last one.
Originally...well....a Spa town...
The baths were being renovated...
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