Enjoying the food and drink of Europe

  



One of the best parts of this holiday is trying the different food and wine as we travel around.

 

Our first and probably best baguettes in France                                                                and our first bottle of wine

 

A visit to Lidl with wine on sale for Mothers Day

 Salami went very well with Cabernet Sauvignon



Cheese, cheese and more cheese

A whole isle of just yoghurt....too hard to choose

 

Pizza and wine in the Dordogne region

  

 



 

Fresh baguettes in a small town

 

A wine cave along the road somewhere in France

Wine tasting near monbazillac

 

 

 



Breakfast

   

Dinner of meatballs, baguette and salad - La Rive

 

 

 

 

Lunch in the Pyrenees 

 

                     Yummy cheeses

 

  

Some French snails and slugs
 - we didn't eat any

 

 

Wine in Spain

 

Our first Sangria

 

Ice cream in Barcelona

5 kg pots of honey at a service station



Pizza and Italian wine in Marseillan Plage

 

 

Special Epi baguette in Marseillan Plage

 

Buying wine by the litre

 

Lunch - Domain de Masserau

 

 

A snack under the Pont du Gard



Wine tasting

 

A farm stall

 

Buying cherries

Boys drinking raisin juice - pretending it's wine

 

  

Big bags of pasta and big bottles of wine in Italy

Our first pizza in Italy

3-scoop gelatos at San Pe. Boys had strawberry, blackberry and cherry. We had chocolate, mint and milk (from the farm's own cows) flavours.




Chocolate ice cream and wild strawberries we did not share with the kids

 

So much choice....

 

Some Italian sparkling wine

 


 

Bread for morning tea in Cannobio



Our one and only restaurant meal so far

Broke the corkscrew and had to use a 2nd one to open the wine. I miss screw tops.

I went to buy a new Swiss Army knife in Interlaken. The lady in the shop thought the boys were very cute and gave them some yummy Swiss chocolate for free. It was so warm it melted straight away.



Cooling down with some ice creams

Dinner

Using my new (very sharp) knife to cut some bread at a truck stop on the motorway in Switzerland

Breakfast at Bad Liebenzell

Following a 4-step process we sliced and bagged our own bread

 

Pretzels!!

Football mania has started...very yummy rolls we got at Lidl

More to follow as we travel on....