Marseille Lyon and Zurich

Day 6 Marseilles

B: Coffee, OJ

L: Toasted Panini, chicken, lettuce and tomato and chips.
D: Decided to try a Tunisian restaurant near our accommodation, 3 course dinner for 10 euro. Firstly, a chorba soup with vegetables, cous cous, tomato, mint parsley and various spices,, followed by a chicken and vegetable stew, with potatoes, capsicum, carrots and saffron served with fresh crusty bread. Desert was a simple but very sweet slice with almond meal, a nice change, rating 8.0.

Tunisian Chicken and Vegetable Stew

 

Day 7 Marseilles

L: Large Cheese and Olive Pizza, freshly made, a decent pizza, rating 7.5.

D: After a big late lunch, just had a Maccas McFlurry ice cream.

Week 20

Day 1 Marseilles

B: Coffee and Chocolate Croissant

L:  Went to Cannes for the day by train, Shared 2 toasted Panini’s a 3 cheese combination and a chicken, lettuce and tomato version, rating 7.0, washed down by 2 icy cold Heineken beers, rating 8.5.
D: Back to the Tunisian restaurant, again had the chorba soup for starters, followed by a perfectly cooked mixed grill, with a spicy sausage, steak, and lamb chop with chips and salad, followed by an almond cake slice with a sugar syrup, again a really nice meal, rating, cost under $20.
 

Mixed Grill

Chorba Soup

Day 2 Marseilles

B: Another train day trip this time to Nice, Coffee and a banana on a baguette.

L: Found a Vietnamese restaurant and had Pho Noodle soup, a nice change and quite tasty rating, 7.5, washed down with an ice cold Heineken beer, rating 8.5.

D: Grilled salmon rice and salad, quite possible the worst piece of fish I have ever eaten. it had been grilled bone dry and thus had no real flavour, and who ever cooked this meal had no right to be called a cook let alone a chef, shame shame, shame rating 4.0.

Day 3 Marseilles to Lyon

B: Coffee and banana on a fresh baguette

L: Snacks and fruit on train
D: Very difficult to find a restaurant open, but finally did, believe it or not, but a grill at an Ibis Hotel, saw duck on the menu, not done Asian style, so had grilled breast of duck served with penne pasta with a tomato sauce and a salad and a crusty bread.  The duck was perfectly cooked and went a treat with somewhat different accompaniments, rating 8.5.



Grilled Duck Breast and Pasta

 

Day 4 Lyon to Zurich

B: Coffee, OJ, Croissant and Bacon and Egg Muffin Quick

L: Visited Coop supermarket for the 1st time, regular supermarket but has huge range of pre prepared foods, like salads 25 types, roast chickens, cooked bratwurst, cheeses, bakery and the usual fruit and vegetable range. So I bought a cooked bratwurst, green leaf salad with a chilli dressing, cherry tomato buffalo mozzarella cheese and basil pesto salad. Don’t usually rate lunches but this was such a gourmet spread, rating 8.0.
D: Visited Glen and Stefanie who we met on the gadventures Peru tour, tried a couple of varieties of beers, firstly……, which was just ok, rating 6.5, and the second was …Feldschosschen lager (5,2%).. and it was much better, rating 8.0. For dinner we had takeaway chicken kebabs with a nice spicy chill sauce, rating 7.5.




Feldschossen Lager

Day 5 Zurich

B: Coffee

L: Repeated the visit to Coop and had similar meal, again fresh salads, etc, rating again 8.0.
D: Glen and Stefanie kindly took us to a lakeside village called Weggis  about a 40 minute drive from Zurich, where after a swim in the Chrystal clear lake, where at dined at a local restaurant, and I had the Gnocchi with sun dried tomatoes, pine nuts, baby spinach and parmesan cheese, which was a delightful meal, rating 8.5. Also tried a few Braugold Lager beers (5%) which went down a treat, rating 8.5.

 

 

Gnoochi

Beer with Dinner

Day 6 Zurich

B: Coffee and croissants.

L: Grilled Chilli Bratwurst roll, with lettuce and tomato, very tasty, rating 8.0, followed by a Feldschosschen lager (5,2%) beer which went great with the heat of the chilli sausage, rating 8.0.

Grilled Chilli Bratwurst

 

D: Back to Coop, this time we got ½ a bar b cued chicken, with a range of fresh salads, yoghurt for desert, and as Lindt chocolate was on special we also treated ourselves to one, a nice simple meal, rating 7.5.

Day 7 Zurich
 

L: Salami and salad baguette, coffee and a croissant.

D: Found a Thai restaurant, where I tried 2 types of red thai curry chicken, 1 which mild and quite tasty, and a second which was very hot and spicy, with rice, just  a nice change from European diet we had been enjoying, rating 8.0. Had an Offenausschank Lager beer (5.0%) on the way home, which was a bit too wheaty for my liking, but it did help put out the fire, rating 7.5.



Thai Red Chicken Curry



Beers

 

Coop Food Selection



Swiss Favourite