La Rochelle restaurants and shopping
We’re still in La Rochelle, where I am trying in vain to save our bank balance from numerous assaults and attacks. Happily the children don’t realise how close we are to Futuroscope France! The latest challenge came when someone, somehow, discovered that men’s jeans were on sale on the top floor of Galaries Lafayette.
How they discovered it is still a mystery to me, but off we trotted so I could be kitted out for winter at 30% discount.
Now I know it’s not often I’m seen in a clothes shop, but apparently it’s such a remarkable event that eldest daughter thought it necessary to take photos on her phone each time I emerged from the changing rooms, presumably for immediate despatch to astonished friends and relatives.
Nothing suitable turned up to buy so I consider the trip to be a roaring success, although eldest daughter did find time to demonstrate that 100 euro men’s shirts suited her very well. What good luck.
There are of course lots of restaurants in La Rochelle to suit all budgets, although the casual visitor won’t know whether the food will be better at the 50 euro per person restaurant than at the 15 euros per person restaurant down the road.
It’s also much harder to be disappointed in a cheap restaurant – either the food is rubbish as expected or it’s a pleasant surprise. In an expensive restaurant the ‘downside risk’ is much higher.
In any case these are the (not very convincing) arguments I use to convince the family that we might as well eat in a cheap restaurant. Frites with curry sauce, anyone?
At a fish restaurant last night I couldn’t remember what ‘eperlans’ was but daughter assured me it was a white fish. She had forgotten that it’s also a very small white fish – whitebait. Luckily I like whitebait but it reminded me that I should carry a French-English dictionary.
It also reminded me that teenagers will say anything rather than admit that they don’t know the answer.