Local Customs

I guess that it will take us a short while to get used to the local customs. 

After cooking our own meals in the townhouse for the first two days we felt like eating out.  Ted and I did a reconnaissance stroll around in the streets near our unit, and found a nice small place, Criee, Restaurant Poisson, very close to where we are staying.  There seem to be a number of small family-run restaurants around once one gets out of the main shopping centres.  These tend to have very small menus, and always have one or two specials of the day.

 Criee had a sign in the window with opening hours 18:00 – 23:00.  So after a nice glass of champagne in the unit we strolled over for dinner, arriving at 6:45, hoping to beat the rush.  Looking in the window we saw a group of three already sitting down for a meal, and thought that we had done well.  When we went in they looked up, and I asked about “un table pour quatre”.  The man said “too early, too early”.  They were the chef, waitress and maître d having their own dinner.  But he showed us to a nice table upstairs, and gave us the menu, and we ordered – LouAnne and Judith a Thai steamboat, Ted a baked bass, and me a steamed filet, and a nice bottle of wine.

The meal was really lovely, and the people in the restaurant very friendly.  We all really enjoyed the meal and atmosphere in the restaurant, and had a lot of laughs together.  As we were leaving at eight o’clock the locals were just starting to arrive.  We will know better next time.

Chris