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eat!”
Between courses there was plenty of conversation and tasty appetisers that refreshed you
for what was yet to come. No course was too large. No plates filled to overflowing with
gravy oozing over the sides. Nothing in excess. Just attractive food with plenty of flavour.
The time passed all too quickly.

Since this very first time, we have learned to enjoy the experience of good food and wine
with excellent company in lovely surroundings.

To conclude this visit with the Hamon family we need to inform readers that this was the
beginning of a really good friendship between us that has continued to this day when both
ourselves and Marcel and Armelle have brought up our families and begun our retirement.

SECOND VISIT
This would be a good time to mention that the following year we returned to Brittany.

Again guests of Uniroyal for a visit to their stockist in Quimpere on the southern ‘Biscay’
coast.
Quimpere is an attractive traditional fishing port where the Uniroyal stocking point,
(entrepot to give them their European title) had a wider variety of products in his
distribution network.
A Uniroyal representative from Nantes met us this time and the mid day meal was in a
country restaurant using a traditional farmhouse kitchen located about 10 miles from the
city.

The stocking point proprietor was also an old car fan and this time we were chauffeured in
his 1960’s Citroen DS. The meal was equally
long but excelled in farmhouse cuisine and
local shellfish.
We were the only folk eating at that time and
had the full attention of the proprietor and his
wife.

These wonderful experiences of genuine
French life no doubt set the seed that
would result over 35 years later in our
choosing to live in France full time after
our retirement.

1977

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