Friday 16th October 2015
First of all drive to Port Vendres and after good coffee and snack at a harbourside patisserie I leave Gail at a beauty parlour where she is having her nails done. About an hour later I meet up with Gail who is very happy with the beautician’s work and we drive across to the other side of the harbour where find a real gem, a poissonerie selling a huge range of quality seafoods. We decide to return later to buy some of the seafood but for the time being we drive south out of Port Vendre to Cap Bear and the lighthouse on the promontory. We reach there by taking a very narrow single lane road which is not for the faint-hearted given the huge drop down to the rocky coastline.
While at the Cap we have a nice chat with a couple from the Somme area of France and to our surprise the husband is wearing a Wallabies shirt from the 2003 WC in Australia.
Back in Port Vendres we have a lunch of mussels and monkfish at a great waterfront restaurant. Cote Mer Cote Ger (Ger being a French Department in the south-west.
Return to the previously visited poissonerie to buy anchovies and Norwegian salmon which Gail cooks up for a great meal.
BTW Collioure/Port Vendres is very much the centre for anchovies.
Cheers
The Obese Ferret
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