The Trip to France
- Tocane

The Lay of the Land

Finding sessions, concerts, and dinner every evening led us to see a number of the towns in the surrounding area.

Just up the hill from Tocane is Montagrier. (On the way is a Stunning Overlook, as shown on the map. You can see the view in this photo. Nice, huh?) There's a restaurant where we ate and had a session or two a short jog up the road from the churchyard where we took this picture. It's a great pity we don't have pictures of the place. The outside dining area was almost completely canopied by live grape vines growing up the sides of the surrounding buildings and horizontally overhead on guy-wires. A very nice place to relax on a warm summer evening with a glass of wine. The proprietor said it took about ten years to grow the vines up, and hinted that it might be messy or buggy to sit beneath them at other times of year. (Mike's French dining tip from this place: andouillette is not what our Cajun friends call andouille sausage, it's what they would probably call "chitlins and friends". Ugh.)