So, after the morning walk around St Jean we drove (all of) 6 miles to Roquefort!
Now, we love cheese, and this feels a bit like a pilgrimage! We drove in to the town just after 11:30 to find the high street closed while the Armistace Day service was still taking place, so we sat in the van for 15 minutes or so while the band finished their music (very French and patriotic).
Afterwards we set up base camp in the Aire at the bottom of the high street, had some lovely upside down apple cake that Kate made from apples that I liberated from an orchard a couple of weeks ago then went for a cheese tour of the town.
We visited three producers and having tasted cheese in two of them we bought some really really yummy cheese from Gabriel Coulet (a small producer). The two ladies in the shop were lovely and really helpful and friendly. In fact, once we had ordered the cheese we wanted and asked for a 'smaller piece to eat later' they cut a huge piece from one of their tasting blocks and gave it to us for free (I worked out later that they had just given us 6 Euro's worth!). We also bought two bottles of wine from them, one smaller sweet one for today and a local white for Xmas day (mum!).
Then after all that excitement we cycled to the next village called Tournemire and stumbled across another 'cirque' this time formed from Limestone.
All in all, a grand day out!
Armistace day in Roquefort
Yep ! we're here!
"Oooooh!" lots of lovely Roquefort chees in a cave.......
And these were the two lovely ladies who ran the shop
Limestone Cirque in Tournemire, nearby
On the way back we saw this old advert for the very cheese we bought earlier...
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