COG arrives

The Cranky Old Geezer arrived yesterday and so did Rose's own geezer(ROG).  Despite the Geezers being jet lagged, we all went out for the evening.  We had a drink (pastis, for me, the COG and Rose. beer for ROG) in a sidewalk cafe on the Capitole, then we had an absolutely fabulous meal in a little restaurant called The Genty Magre, or something like that.

We all had the same thing, sort of.  For starters we had duck on a little mound of chickpeas and various vegetables made into a wonderful salad with a little crunch to it and seasoned with mint and cilantro.  For the main course I had slightly grilled tuna with a crust of cumin on a bed of something like baba ganoush. The others had lamb shanks that looked really good.  But I have to say mine was so wonderful that I didn't even ask for a taste.  For dessert we had different things: Rose and I had a chocolate ..... thing. It had a sabayon on top and a dense chocolate center sitting on a bed of crunchy chocolate cookie crumbs.   ROG had cherry clafouti and the COG had a waffly thing with ice cream and red fruit sauce on it.  We also ordered a special wine accompaniment so we had 3 different kinds of wine: a Gaillac red for the first course, another red for the second course, and a sweet white petillant wine for the dessert.  About 2.5 bottles of wine for the 4 of us, plus drinks before. 

It was a really wonderful meal.  Afterwards, the Geezer and I took a walk by the river. That's what the pictures show.  Then we retired to our lovely hotel room, where (unlike Rose and ROG) we slept like babies -  undisturbed by the noise of jubilant rugby fans celebrating Toulouse's win in a major game with shouting, singing, and bottle breaking.