1 post tagged “bordeaux”
Today is another long drive day. We left Lourdes early in the morning and made a brief stop in a small village called Aire-sur-I'Adour (I didn't make this name up. Go ahead and google it if you don't believe me). It was their lunch time when we got there and all shops, I mean all shops except one cafe, were closed. I guess it was still a good idea to get out of the coach and stretch our legs after sitting for hours. We later had our lunch in one of the best AutoGrills (motorway restaurant) we have been to in this trip. The qualify and variety of the food were both very good.
Our hotel in Bordeaux is situated right next to a shopping centre. It wasn't a mega mall (more like The Glen), but it was good enough to excite a bunch of people who haven't been in any real shopping centre for days by now (the last shopping centre we went to was the one in Barcelona). We didn't really need to buy anything and the shopping centre didn't really have anything interesting to offer. But the mere sense of being inside a modern shopping centre was enough to temporarily cure our home sickness. I guess there is no use to deny that we are the typical shopping-centre generation.
The dinner in the hotel was good in quality, but not in quantity (may be we just ate too much). The dessert was also particularly disappointing. We decided to hunt for our own supper in the supermarket inside the shopping centre we went to in the afternoon. Their supermarkets are way bigger than ours and carry a lot more variety of goods. We fixed our eyes on fresh oysters and prawns and managed to buy some with our broken-Frenlish (short for French-English). One new thing we learned today is that French don't open oysters for you. I was charged with the task of opening our oysters with my trusted Leatherman. That leads me to another thing I have learned to day: It is ridiculously hard to open the shell of an oyster. I managed to open 11 out of 12 oysters we bought. It's okay. The hard work just made the oyster tasted even better.
