Our local café in Montsoreau, the Lion d’Or, has a series of Friday night specials during Summer. The first one was a tapas dinner with an evening of Bossa Nova music and dancing. We made our reservation, not really knowing what to expect. We thought it might be an opportunity to meet some people in the village.
We got all dressed up and walked down to the
centre-ville at about 8:30. There was already a big crowd sitting at tables set up outside the café but our little table was reserved so we sat down and ordered a bottle of rosé. The band was a woman, a chanteuse, and two men – one played the guitar and the other, maracas. Et voilà, Bossa Nova! Actually, the music was pretty good. While they were playing a buffet dinner was served – couscous, frittata, chorizo, mozzerella and tomato, cheeses, olives, good country bread.
After dinner, there was more music and dancing. We did get to meet one man, Henri, a Basque who was in town for an engineers’ convention. He was with a large group of ten adults and three children. Between them they drank 4 bottles of champagne and 12 bottles of red wine. The kids only drank soda.
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