Bars of France

Café de la Poste, Saint-Savin N42.98071° W0.09089°

Surprise find one Sunday morning in 2006 and welcome relief from the heat. No idea if it’s still there now
 

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Missed opportunity - Cafe du Theatre, Fabrezan N43.13696° E2.69967°

Rode passed it one day, should have gone back, it looked delightful :blast
 
Café de la Poste, Saint-Savin

Surprise find one Sunday morning in 2006.....No idea if it’s still there now

Good news. It was when the 2020 edition of the Petit Futé guide was published.

After the visit of the chapel of Piétat, located just a few hundred metres from the village and after having admired the magnificent abbey of Saint-Savin, don't forget to pause on the square, in one of the oldest cafes in France (built in 1441), where some scenes of the film Bernadette were filmed. Take advantage of it to buy some regional products since the facility also serves as a grocery store: jurancon, candied, foie gras, croustades and honey of the country. The café is open all day and serves sandwiches and other snacks.
 
Doubt we will be here this year;:tears
And the landlord likes bikes.:beerjug:
 

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Cafe du Commerce, Lyon-la-Foret. In my opinion this is the archetypal French cafe/restaurant. Basic but delicious food, very reasonably priced, lika a staff canteen for the whole village (except in height of Summer when th ecoach parties take over) and nice little square to look at.

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In my defence, this was a lot colder than it looked...

This was out first stop on the first "big" trip on the bike with Jo to the Catalan MotoGP in 2015. Still in the early days of our relationship, and our only previous overseas jaunt had been a day trip, including meeting a few others from here at the Bistro in Cap Gris Nez (fortunately not the knackertrap event referred to elsewhere, which I can only hope happened on a Friday at five to five).

Anyway, I had regaled Jo with how we could expect two weeks of wall-to-wall sunshine, 18 hrs of daylight, etc etc. Day one fulfilled these criteria but also supplied a steady and cold wind. I think we were wearing ALL our clothes for the jaunt at the time the photo was taken.
 
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La Tete Bruele in La Rochelle is a bit of a shrine to all things flying.
Jerome the owner is an interesting ex-pilot.

Has good music playing as well.
 
Not so much a Bar in France as a French bar in our tent. Bought tent for about 10-Euro's from Lidl, used bungees as guy ropes (one secured to 1150R). Tent was so small we had to reverse ourselves into it. Woke in the wee small hours as condensation was running down inside of tent, unzipped door and slept with it open after that. Lobbed tent into Poubelle as we departed site the following morning.
Great memories, happy days indeed :D
 

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Not so much a Bar in France as a French bar in our tent. Bought tent for about 10-Euro's from Lidl, used bungees as guy ropes (one secured to 1150R). Tent was so small we had to reverse ourselves into it. Woke in the wee small hours as condensation was running down inside of tent, unzipped door and slept with it open after that. Lobbed tent into Poubelle as we departed site the following morning.
Great memories, happy days indeed :D

‘We’ ??
How many were you in that tent ?
 
Lovely little bar in Plesala does lovely wood fired oven tofu pizza and the biggest ever glasses of ice cold beer :thumb2

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Andres
 
Not so much a Bar in France as a French bar in our tent. Bought tent for about 10-Euro's from Lidl, used bungees as guy ropes (one secured to 1150R). Tent was so small we had to reverse ourselves into it. Woke in the wee small hours as condensation was running down inside of tent, unzipped door and slept with it open after that. Lobbed tent into Poubelle as we departed site the following morning.
Great memories, happy days indeed :D

Top post.

It looks very much like the crappy tent I used to take to Assen in the 80’s. Each year I vowed it would be the last... it never was.
 
Lovely little bar in Plesala does lovely wood fired oven tofu pizza and the biggest ever glasses of ice cold beer :thumb2

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Andres

There’s a joke about far away cows in there somewhere :D
 
Chezy Forens

Le Train in Chez Forens. On the back road from St Claud to Savoie and other places.
 

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Les Ballastieres

Not so much a bar as a biker B and B. in St. Pol sur Ternoise, but it has a bar. Guy on my right in the 2nd picture is Paul, a Harley fan and a proper character. First time we met him and his wife Sue buggered off to a rally and shut the place up leaving us locked out. We had to search for an old ladder in the dark and break in through an upstairs window. Despite that we went back several times. Lovely couple.
 

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Motley crue

Not actually in France, more like Luxembourg but this is what bar's are for after a good day out;)
 

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