Why or how do the French stay thin?

Tue:

Home base established now in the city of Bayeux. We will explore the beaches, monuments and memorial museums from here for the next 3 days.

The drive was just under 5 hours. We selected the alternate (read: no toll) back roads route on the GPS and averaged maybe 75kph total. It was fun seeing so much of the countryside very similar to rural Canada (albeit the villages a century or two older).

To our surprise, our accommodations are not in the outskirts of town, rather Hotel Sainte Croix sits right in the middle of the old village centre. On the up side, we can walk any/everywhere.

The room comes with a small TV, however, no sports channel so no Stanley Cup will be watched.

The dining, oh this is getting tiring, was incredible. A new restaurant that was suggested to us. Once we found it we walked in to find it totally empty. Humm, not a good sign. Within the hour it was hoppin. We keep forgetting that the French like to eat after 8pm so when we start at 7 or 730 it is us who are abnormal.

 A twist on the tomato, cheese and basil dish. The tomatoes and cheese are diced, tossed and presented in a cup.

This parcel contained a warm goat cheese, apple and ham with a fairly strong mustard.

Sharon had a stuffed quail on pureed sweet potato.

 Monsieur enjoyed  a grilled pollock smothered in a sausage accompanied by a small quiche and sweet potato mound topped with a sundried tomato.

Sharon's desert was a apple pie with ice cream. This is apple country and they are in lots of recipes.

They called this creamy chocolate cake. It was creamy, and it was chocolatey, but there was minimal of what I would call "cake". In Canada we would have 2 inches of cake and some icing. This baby was 2 inches on creamy chocolate and 1/4inch cake.

We burned all of maybe 100 calories off with a brief walk as we waited for darkness and the light up of the cathedral.

It is Wednesday morning. We have enjoyed our breakfast and are heading off to the tourist info center for a map then to Caen and the Canadian war memorial and museum.