Another photo from Genillé

Here's another view from just outside the restaurant in Genillé where we had lunch on Tuesday. It's a very picturesque little place.

Geraniums in a window box. So very French.

We've been eating couscous for days, having made a huge pot of the stuff. It's still delicious. On Saturday I bought some clams at the market in St.-Aignan and we had linguine with white clam sauce for lunch. Yummy.

Where we ate

This is the restaurant where we had lunch on Tuesday. It's called  Au Rendez-vous d'Agnès Sorel after the famous mistress of King Charles VII in the fifteenth century. She died very young after giving birth to their fourth child.

We sat at the table in the window on the left, with a view of the town's 11th century church.

The king was so taken with her that he accorded her several properties around France, including Loches in the southern Touraine region. It was Agnès who had the renaissance castle built there. Her body is entombed in the church adjacent to the château, but her heart was taken to the abbey at Jumièges in Normandy.

We enjoyed a leisurely lunch at the restaurant. As I mentioned earlier, Ken will probably share his photos of what we ate there.

Lunch out

On Tuesday we ventured out to lunch with our friend, CHM. The restaurant is one we have been to several times over the years. It's located in a small town about a half-hour south of us. There were six customers: the three of us, a couple, and another man. The hostess (the chef's wife) is very friendly and welcoming.

Not far from the restaurant is a little grocery and this inviting little courtyard. Too bad about the car in the shot.

After a delicious lunch I took a few photos out in the front of the restaurant. Ken and CHM took more pictures than I did, including the food we ate, and some of them will likely show up on Ken's blog in the coming days.

Today it's raining, but we're expecting a kind of heat wave for the weekend and the following week with temperatures predicted to go into the high 20sC (around 80F). That will be good for the vegetable garden!