Not much happening today…

I was off today so I slept in late and then went out around 9:30 to L’Atelier de Boulangerie to get something for breakfast. I bought a pizza jambon champignon (ham and mushroom) and 2 petit gateaux, une nutella et une chocolat caramel. They are just the perfect size to have a taste of the cake but not fill you up or put you in a sugar coma. The nutella one had a hazelnut in it and the chocolat caramel had a swirl of caramel in it. (Yeah I’m definitely coming back with a few extra kilos...)

I ate that, had some tonic and the passed out for another 4 hours....I only ended up going out around 4:30pm to meet up with Marion at the pente de vue in Croix Rousse for a beer and we just chatted for an hour or so as she and Chris were at a party on the weekend that I didn’t go to so I wanted all the details J

I came home and then chatted to Marie for quite a long time...until just before 8pm when she left to move to her new, long term place as her studies will keep her in Lyon for 1 year at least.

Got into bed around 9 but only ended up falling asleep after 10 as I wasn’t that tired and there was a lot of activity in the street.

Marlene’s birthday; or not?

Got up as like normal today and then around 10am I went to a bakery about 5 min walk away called L’atelier de Boulangerie and picked up a croque monsier (here there croques are 2 slices of white bread which I’m assuming are baked in the bakery and not government bread as we know it, with some ham and béchamel inside and then some grated emmental/gruyere on top. They’re made in advance so you can warm them up or just have them like that.) And a tartlette chocolat caramel which had a rustic sable base and this delicious centre that tasted like a Rolo (Soft creamy toffee in milk chocolate cups) kinda if you can imagine caramel and chocolate merged into one. It had the texture of firm caramel but not so far as toffee and with a creaminess from the chocolate and a velvety sweetness from the caramel. Picked those two up for 2.5 euros a piece so not bad...

Chilled in the rest of the day watching movies and then around 6pm I decided to go out for a bit. It was still sunny at this time with a gentle breeze sweeping through the city. Bought two 440ml beers and a bag of chips and went and chilled at basilique (the view point) for about 3 hours just enjoying the sun and my book.

 I then went home and chilled for the rest of the day.

I also forgot that it was Marlene’s birthday...I had even asked her twice the day before and couldn’t remember. I’m just not a person to remember birthdays....I can remember supplier’s numbers and recipes and ratios but birthdays...not happening.