Timmy and Helen are here in Monsoreau for a little visit of about a week. They had some adventures in getting here. There was no problem on the Ryanair flight from Dublin to Nantes (except for the 2km walk to the gate at Dublin Airport) but the journey to Saumur was more difficult. They came on a Saturday when there are less trains coming from Nantes to Saumur. They also found out that the shuttle from the airport to the train station is not as frequent on Saturdays. They had to take a bus to the tram line which took them to the centre of the city, then another tram to the train station. They had missed all the TGV’s for that day so they had to wait hours for a train coming from Quimper on its way to Geneva that was stopping in Nantes and also in Saumur. It was a sleeper train and also had four or five double decker loads of new cars, probably being delivered to Paris.
They finally arrived at 10:15 in Saumur. We had already called a restaurant in Saumur centre-ville, “Le Grand Bleu” to see if they would still be open but of course they had already stopped serving at 10. So we decided not to take any more chances. We went directly to the restaurant closest to the train station, “Le Case Creole”, a restaurant specializing in the cuisine of Reunion, the “French” island in the Caribbean. When we arrived there were still a whole lot of people there but when we left we closed the place behind us. Besides the food (shrimp in Reunion sauce, curried beef, halibut in a lime sauce, basmati rice and lentils) the waiter, a wonderful Reunionnaise, brought us a digestif of cinnamon-infused rum served in little glass jugs. What an experience!
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