Two Go Back For More Cheese

Riverbankannie said:
I hope you feel better soon.
It’s a timely reminder to those buying paracetamol abroad. Many are just used to taking 2 tablets and not taking note of the dose.
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The instructions are quite complicated in that they recommend a dosage based on so many mg per kg of body weight. Very different to the UK system but hard to criticise it as the UK approach of one or two tablets every four hours is a bit vague.
 
It’s a shame our paths didn’t cross at tge same time. We enjoyed Falaise and Utah Beach too but some weeks ago now. We’re at Pontivy now and likely to visit La Flèche on the way home 😜. Hope you improve soon.
 
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DBK said:
The instructions are quite complicated in that they recommend a dosage based on so many mg per kg of body weight. Very different to the UK system but hard to criticise it as the UK approach of one or two tablets every four hours is a bit vague.
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I hope you are feeling better soon, really enjoying your thread.
 
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royandsharont said:
It’s a shame our paths didn’t cross at tge same time. We enjoyed Falaise and Utah Beach too but some weeks ago now. We’re at Pontivy now and likely to visit La Flèche on the way home 😜. Hope you improve soon.
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You should visit Josselin if you are in the area, it’s a lovely place.
 
When we were in France last Denise had a kidney infection and the doctor prescribed 3 things one was 1 gram paracetamols and the prescription cost €27

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royandsharont said:
It’s a shame our paths didn’t cross at tge same time. We enjoyed Falaise and Utah Beach too but some weeks ago now. We’re at Pontivy now and likely to visit La Flèche on the way home 😜. Hope you improve soon.
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I think I've only met half a dozen Funsters in the flesh. As you say, even if you go to the same places the odds of going there at the same time are low.
 
DBK said:
We are having a relatively easy day as I've gone down with Man Flu. I've had headaches on and off for a couple of days plus sneezing but today I'm a bit lethargic. However, I'm not so bad we couldn't go shopping this morning at the LeClerc in Falaise. It was an upmarket shop, this is only a fraction of the bread on offer.

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We didn't shop in this part of the wine section. :)

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There was a pharmacy in the supermarket building which I visited to buy more paracetamol. I've been taking two 200mg tablets from a packet bought in Tesco. My request for "deux cent" tablets was met with puzzlement. Their paracetamol came in 500mg and 1000mg sized tablets! I bought two packets of 500mg as the safest option. Spain is the same, you can get ibuprofen there in huge doses.

Afterwards we drove north to the aire at Utah Beach.

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We've been here before but it was a convenient place to stop in my delicate state. :)

It was cheese for lunch of course.

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Both are from the Massif Central area. Rochebaron on the right was a mild blue cheese, a bit like Cambozola. The one on the left is St Nectaire which has an AOP label. Having learned of the significance of these yesterday we will be looking for it when we next buy cheese. The St Nectaire had a taste a bit like Brie but with a firmer texture.

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We have curious neighbours next to the aire.

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What happens tomorrow will depend to some extent on how I feel in the morning. 🤒
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Lovely photos as ever. Love the cheeses and the alpaca/llamas. Hope you’re feeling better. Our experience with French pharmacists has been pretty positive. A friend texted me to say that supplies of her partner’s dementia medication was problematic and could we see if we could get some in France. We explained this to our local pharmacy in St Saulge who was most helpful. The prescription was emailed and the medicine was available to collect the next day. Posting it to Blighty was another issue (on which I’ve posted previously) but all went well. A lot cheaper too than on-line sources where the provenance and quality are not assured.
 
A Brit couple have parked up in the pitch next to us. Both have awful, chesty coughs. Not had a chance to speak to them but am minded to keep my distance in case there is some lurgy going around. 😢

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Zoobec said:
You should visit Josselin if you are in the area, it’s a lovely place.
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We’ve just arrived there! Parked up in the free Aire by the canal. (Services are in the town which seems a bit disjointed but seems a nice location. Just had our baguette & more cheese, so off for a wander.
 
Hope its not the overdose of cheese giving you headaches.
My mrs is convinced that some cheeses give her headaches, depends on type and what time of day etc.
Women are so fussy at times!:rolleyes:
Hope you get well soon DBK, as usual really enjoying your thread, many thanks for sharing.(y)
LES
& TinaL, in just seeing and reading about all the cheeses, she now needs a lie down with a headache at the moment.;)
 
After a somewhat rough night with continuous rain falling during which I was waking up every now and again cold and shivering with the added fun factor of an aire-wide power cut things have improved today! I put my remission down to the cheap wine taken internally last night which seems to have killed off the worst of the bugs. :)

We decided to move on but not before I took a photo of our neighbour in the aire.

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Spanish registered with, probably not obvious, but a pop-up tent on the load platform and a tarpaulin thrown over the top. Hope they were dry in the downpour last night.

As the forecast looks dry for the next couple of days our plan was to find somewhere to spend the weekend. This meant another quick shop.

We bought some raw prawns but were intrigued by this display on the fish counter.

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Crab claws for sale, which I don't recall seeing before. But perhaps just as intriguing is they are described as "Pincers Torteaux". Google translates "Torteaux" as "tortoise" which is something even the French don't eat. Well, not often except perhaps in Corsica.

My limited research seems to suggest Torteaux is a local word confined to Brittany and places close such as where we are now.

Also interesting is the crab species is referred to by its Latin name: Cancer pagurus. The edible or brown crab to the rest of us. They do take their fish seriously here.

Where we shopped was in Carentan les Marais. It isn't shown on the map below as the label "Parc Naturel Régional des Marais du Cotentin" is written over the top of it. "Marais" means marsh and a lot of paratroopers drowned here during the D-Day landings.

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All very peaceful now but the sheer concentration of memorials in a confined area is sobering.

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We are now on the aire at St Germain sur Ay which is beside a field of an unexpected crop for France - leeks!

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A shortish walk takes you to the beach.

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Dog's bottom added in the lower right for scale. :)

The French are keen on collecting rubbish from the sea.


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We might walk further tomorrow - depends on the state of our colds. :)

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DBK said:
Their paracetamol came in 500mg and 1000mg sized tablets!
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Yes I only buy Xumadol 1G , usually in powder form, sold in 40's about 3,28€. Not supposed to be supplied now if over 10 satchets/tablets without a prescription. but local farmácias don't bother.
& yes I've never found ibuprofen in anything under 400mg here.Usual is 600mg
 
I’m glad you’re feeling a bit better. We have a lot of really nasty upper respiratory infections at work (school) and so short staffed everyone works through so on it goes.

Picked up ibuprofen and paracetamol in supermarket pharmacy in the summer (France) and wrote a reminder on the packs only to take one as high dose.
 
DBK said:
After a somewhat rough night with continuous rain falling during which I was waking up every now and again cold and shivering with the added fun factor of an aire-wide power cut things have improved today! I put my remission down to the cheap wine taken internally last night which seems to have killed off the worst of the bugs. :)

We decided to move on but not before I took a photo of our neighbour in the aire.

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Spanish registered with, probably not obvious, but a pop-up tent on the load platform and a tarpaulin thrown over the top. Hope they were dry in the downpour last night.

As the forecast looks dry for the next couple of days our plan was to find somewhere to spend the weekend. This meant another quick shop.

We bought some raw prawns but were intrigued by this display on the fish counter.

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Crab claws for sale, which I don't recall seeing before. But perhaps just as intriguing is they are described as "Pincers Torteaux". Google translates "Torteaux" as "tortoise" which is something even the French don't eat. Well, not often except perhaps in Corsica.

My limited research seems to suggest Torteaux is a local word confined to Brittany and places close such as where we are now.

Also interesting is the crab species is referred to by its Latin name: Cancer pagurus. The edible or brown crab to the rest of us. They do take their fish seriously here.

Where we shopped was in Carentan les Marais. It isn't shown on the map below as the label "Parc Naturel Régional des Marais du Cotentin" is written over the top of it. "Marais" means marsh and a lot of paratroopers drowned here during the D-Day landings.

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All very peaceful now but the sheer concentration of memorials in a confined area is sobering.

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We are now on the aire at St Germain sur Ay which is beside a field of an unexpected crop for France - leeks!

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A shortish walk takes you to the beach.

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Dog's bottom added in the lower right for scale. :)

The French are keen on collecting rubbish from the sea.


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We might walk further tomorrow - depends on the state of our colds. :)
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pincers tourteaux translates as pinch cakes on google translate 😂 but usually in Brittany I have seen only whole crab - tourteaux.
 
Zoobec said:
pincers tourteaux translates as pinch cakes on google translate 😂 but usually in Brittany I have seen only whole crab - tourteaux.
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It does indeed throw Google Translate! The other label says Torteaux Cuits which I take to mean Cooked Crab.

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DBK said:
It does indeed throw Google Translate! The other label says Torteaux Cuits which I take to mean Cooked Crab.
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Yes the other label - Tourteaux Cuits will be cooked crab. I love crab but the amount of preparation involved puts me off buying a whole one!
 
We're still recovering from our colds although to quote Bob Mortimer from Gone Fishing I think my Man Flu is the more "senior" affliction. :)

I noticed tractor tyre marks on the beach yesterday but there were no tractors to be seen, unlike today. Something for chaser :)

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Where the boats were is unknown other than presumably a long way out to sea as they were nowhere in sight.

What was in sight was this lump on the horizon. The island of Jersey.

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The top of the beach has curious stones.

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These are not normal beach stones which would be rounded. Possibly an old defence against erosion? We need to investigate further tomorrow. :)
 
Outside the aire is this curious, and very new, unmanned filling station. Just one pump giving petrol and diesel and it seems to get a reasonable amount of trade. A useful service for the locals in an area where there probably isn't enough traffic to sustain a normal garage.

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We went for another walk on the beach this afternoon.

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It's one of those beaches which stretches as far as the eye can see. The sand is very firm and flat. But we did solve yesterday's mystery of the odd stones on the beach when we found a lot of them at the top of the beach.

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As we suspected they must have been tipped here to reduce erosion.

I'll post this video on Charlie's Dog Blog but I thought I'd share it here as it gives a better impression of the beach than perhaps a few still photos can do.



After his run Charlie found a little pool to hide in.

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But we found him. :)

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DBK said:
Outside the aire is this curious, and very new, unmanned filling station. Just one pump giving petrol and diesel and it seems to get a reasonable amount of trade. A useful service for the locals in an area where there probably isn't enough traffic to sustain a normal garage.

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saw a couple of these types of ‘stations’ earlier this year….both had signs up saying community owned/ money goes to local town etc……one also had a car wash with gantry for motorhomes/lorries etc. Great idea and I hope they work for them!
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Stoosal said:
saw a couple of these types of ‘stations’ earlier this year….both had signs up saying community owned/ money goes to local town etc……one also had a car wash with gantry for motorhomes/lorries etc. Great idea and I hope they work for them!
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scousebird said:
We passed a couple of those small petrol stations too this year, both looked very new.
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I've just had a closer look and it does look as if it is a community project and the development includes the aire here, which is also new. The notice described it as a "micro-station-service".
 
Your not far from Lessay with a free Aire and a laundrette in town.
 
DBK said:
I think I've only met half a dozen Funsters in the flesh. As you say, even if you go to the same places the odds of going there at the same time are low.
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They must be avoiding you, we have met loads of Funsters on our travels, rarely do a trip without bumping into at least one.
 

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