Monday, September 06, 2004
Bread on wheels
Saint Bertrand
The mobile boulangerie has come to town. Living in the French countryside does have is drawbacks, one is you have to drive everywhere. One of those places is the bread shop. Sometimes we visit it twice a day, French bread seems to go stale about 10 minutes after leaving the boulangerie. From tomorrow the local bread shop is running a delivery service, door-to-door. It only comes on Tuesday and Friday, but we don't have to order anything and just buy from the back of the van. Hopefully he should do a bit of trade when we have guests.
It takes me back to 1972 when I remember living in a small village in Devon and looking forward to Thursday night when the mobile fish and chip van came. Half the village would appear and queue round the village green for "cod and chips twice please, no salt and vinegar". Delicious, though I often thought that the dangers of driving a van with 50 gallons of boiling hot fat slopping about behind me as an occupation best left to others.
| 8:35:04 PM
Bread on wheels
