September Trip

Last weekend we were over in La Matha with Bill & Shirley for a brief stay, which went very well.  We arrived on Friday and decided that we'd try La Terrasse again for dinner.  If you've read previous posts, you'll see that we'd all but given up going there, as it was always closed when we tried.  When I phoned to book, it was answered by someone new; table booked.  It turns out it now has a new owner, who took over in mid-July.  He's a local man who had sold a restaurant nearby some time last year, and ended up buying this one.

The weather was lovely and warm, so we ended up eating outside.  The menu was not like under the Belgians, where they had three or four differently priced menus - this was a single menu with a bit of blurring between starters and main courses: some dishes could be either, and it was limited to about a dozen items.  Food turned out to be very tasty, and the price not too high - about €120 for four, not including drinks.  Normal service resumes - let's hope it lasts!

On Saturday we shopped tn the market at St Foy, as we had guests for the evening.  The guests were people we'd met at Le Moulin restaurant in Les Lèves back in July.  Before the guests turned up, we had a massive thunder storm - see photo below of the river going past the terrace!

Dinner went well, although the son of our guest had a disastrous evening - lightening had set fire to his hay bales, and he'd lost 200 of them just over in Riocaud!

On Sunday, we had a trip to Les Jardins du Sardy between St Foy and Castillon - well worth a trip.  Afterwards, we headed back over the Dordogne through Pessac to Flaujagues - I'd never been there before, and we found it very pretty.  At the recommendation of a guest, we then went on to find La Table Rouge - a delightful restaurant on the road from Flaujagues to Castillon, overlooking the river.  The owner let us eat a late lunch, which was really good.  La Table Rouge is another decent restaurant to go to!