I Cannesn't Go For That (No Cannes Do).
fille_a_paris and I are going to Cannes next week - it's particularly exciting because our flight on Thursday morning is so early that we're having to spend Wednesday night in a hotel in Luton, so it's like two holidays in one. I decided to visit the "What's On…Out 'n About" page of Luton Today to see if there were any exciting events lined up for our one night in Luton*, but all I found was a meeting at the Central Library where Luton's Baha'i community are going to discuss "spiritual solutions to economic problems". Well that's not really my kind of thing - it being total f'#cking cobblers and everything - so I think we'll have to give it a miss. Thursday night in Cannes is already planned though - we've got a table booked for dinner at a restaurant called L'Affable, which as I'm sure you know is on rue Lafontaine. I'm thinking of having either the Ceviche garniture mimosa or the Tartares de saumon à la moutarde wasabi, followed by the Minute de thon, réduction d'échalote au poivre. I'll probably end up deciding against the Ceviche though because seafood can be a bit scary, can't it. I mean, look, it's like being in Doctor Who:
Well In order to avoid being made to eat the Kraken I've been having a look online at other restaurants in Cannes, and was quite impressed by Le Restaurant Arménien. This appears to specialise in Armenian dishes translated tremendously badly into French and then for the benefit of British customers translated tremendously badly into English. So the first thing on the menu is called "The laminated ones with cheeses", which is followed by "The laminated ones with spinaches", and then "The pizza pie with the meat". Well I thought it might be a good idea to see if you could match the English translations to the original French dishes. And then I realised it would probably be a bit of a crappy idea, but decided to go ahead with it anyway, because that's the sort of person I am - the sort of person who thinks it might be a good idea to see if you can match the English translations on the menu of Le Restaurant Arménien to the original French dishes, then realises it would probably be a bit of a crappy idea, but decides to go ahead with it anyway. Well anyway, I've taken fifteen items from the menu and put them into a quiz, and if anyone gets them all right, I'll treat them to a slap up dinner at Le Restaurant Arménien, in the event that I ever happen to bump into them in Cannes**.
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Right, well if anyone bothers to have a go on that I might check the answers. I mean it's unlikely but you never know, stranger things have happened. Anyway, if you've ever been to Cannes and can recommend anywhere - not just anywhere to eat a Salad Of Believed Cabbage Heart, I mean anywhere generally - then please let me know, bearing in mind that I particularly like places that are cheap and sell booze. I tried checking the "What's On…Out 'n About" page of Cannes Aujourd'hui to see if there were any exciting events lined up while we were there, but all I found was a meeting where the Cannes' Baha'i community are going to discuss spiritual solutions to economic problems, at the Biblothèque Centrale.
*One night! One night! One night in Luton, when you touch me, you take me up high with the clouds in the sky - that's how it goes, isn't it. One night! One night! One night in Luton, when you kiss me, you light up my life, make me feel so alive. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Heather Small.
**This competition is not open to wardytron, or to wardytron's family, employees or associated agents.
Well In order to avoid being made to eat the Kraken I've been having a look online at other restaurants in Cannes, and was quite impressed by Le Restaurant Arménien. This appears to specialise in Armenian dishes translated tremendously badly into French and then for the benefit of British customers translated tremendously badly into English. So the first thing on the menu is called "The laminated ones with cheeses", which is followed by "The laminated ones with spinaches", and then "The pizza pie with the meat". Well I thought it might be a good idea to see if you could match the English translations to the original French dishes. And then I realised it would probably be a bit of a crappy idea, but decided to go ahead with it anyway, because that's the sort of person I am - the sort of person who thinks it might be a good idea to see if you can match the English translations on the menu of Le Restaurant Arménien to the original French dishes, then realises it would probably be a bit of a crappy idea, but decides to go ahead with it anyway. Well anyway, I've taken fifteen items from the menu and put them into a quiz, and if anyone gets them all right, I'll treat them to a slap up dinner at Le Restaurant Arménien, in the event that I ever happen to bump into them in Cannes**.
Poll
Right, well if anyone bothers to have a go on that I might check the answers. I mean it's unlikely but you never know, stranger things have happened. Anyway, if you've ever been to Cannes and can recommend anywhere - not just anywhere to eat a Salad Of Believed Cabbage Heart, I mean anywhere generally - then please let me know, bearing in mind that I particularly like places that are cheap and sell booze. I tried checking the "What's On…Out 'n About" page of Cannes Aujourd'hui to see if there were any exciting events lined up while we were there, but all I found was a meeting where the Cannes' Baha'i community are going to discuss spiritual solutions to economic problems, at the Biblothèque Centrale.
*One night! One night! One night in Luton, when you touch me, you take me up high with the clouds in the sky - that's how it goes, isn't it. One night! One night! One night in Luton, when you kiss me, you light up my life, make me feel so alive. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Heather Small.
**This competition is not open to wardytron, or to wardytron's family, employees or associated agents.