Yup, this morning we saw rain. For about an hour anyway, now it’s baking again. We decided to go for a drive in case it started again and drove to a town called Argentan, via Trun. Driving in France on the wrong side of the road has turned out to be very easy. The roads aren’t quiet, but drivers aren’t as aggressive as in the UK and my heavy underpowered Scenic starts to make sense – everybody takes their time to get up to speed. Once in Argentan we found a local pizzeria and I decided to French it up by ordering Pizza Tartiflette (based on the French dish of the same name made with potatoes, cream and cheese). After that we drove to a hypermarket which is where things get really interesting – I discovered a new energy drink called X-Tense so I purchased both the normal and sugar-free varieties. Let’s jump back a bit – I tested the other drinks I mentioned a couple of days ago and they were all pretty minging, however X-Tense was like a sweeter version of Red Bull – yum.

I made it to France and am working on improving the Internet connection as we speak…. that’s a story for another blog post. In fact, details of the building, scenery, journey and food are unlikely to be appearing on this blog too because I know what my readers want. I know that the question on all my reader’s minds is “So Oli, what are French energy drinks like?”. Well dear readers I have purchased four cans and will describe them as I drink them.

I started this morning with the can on the left, “Energy Drink” which I believe is U-Mart’s own brand. It tasted just like any other supermarket’s own brand energy drink so nothing special to report on that. Coming up later, Burn Intense Energy, Dark Dog, and Truc de Fou.

If however you would like to follow what is actually happening here in France then there are a few other blogs covering the same story:

Robbins Ramblings – Ken

Cooking Through 30 – Naomi

‘Allo ‘Allo – Roz

Coming up in future posts – how I rewired the Gites to extend the wireless network coverage.