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I do not know the croutinette but it reminds me the German cake Stollen
made of fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar. It is a traditional German bread eaten during the Christmas season, when it is called Weihnachtsstollen (after "Weihnachten", the German word for Christmas) or Christstollen (after Christ).
Voilà
Michel, is croutinette a name you recognize?
7 years agoLooks awfully good
7 years agoYou mean : The Carte Bleue man
7 years agoI hope you bought it anyway! And since when is heavy weight stopping you? There is always the mail-back option!
7 years agoI can confirm this is Burg Katz. The name has nothing to do with a Katze though!
7 years agoThanks for being along for the ride. We miss your identifications of the weird and wonderful, but really haven't come across many of them.
7 years agoI have been faithfully lurking as you tour France. Not much for me to say, but I am enjoying it... probably more than I would if I were there in person, since French language is way beyond me with all the strange non-pronounced spellings and so on. Keep up the great work!
7 years agoWell, it looks like we passed like two ships in the night ☹️☹️. But like Scott said, glad you made it to Sete in one piece.
BTW, taking the canal route might have been a problem. I took it from Sete on Friday (to Montpellier) and there was a stretch of about 1.5k that was very rugged and very muddy. I had to walk very carefully through 60-70% of that section. Yuck. I’m guessing a whole lot more would’ve been a whole lot worse with the rain we had on Sunday.
But I had no problem getting out in Pavalas, so I’m not sure what the passerale issue was...I’m not even sure what it is, and may have gotten off the path without seeing or using it.
Anyway have a great trip and hopefully we’ll cross paths again someplace down the bike touring road...
Jonathan
yikes, i'm glad you didn,t try the water path !
7 years agoOh, my gosh. Glad you two made it in safe!
7 years agoLooks like a literal "between a rock and a hard place"
7 years agoWe shall carry on in the face of such obstacles and disappointments though eh Marvin!
7 years agoThat looks pretty impressive to me
7 years ago
Ah, at least it is not another French term that everybody knows but me.
7 years agoToday we will reach Toulouse - one of our favourite cities because of (1) cool and groovy atmosphere and (2) cycle path is paved!
p.s. How about the technical English term "Delicious"?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/05/02/macron-calls-australian-leaders-wife-delicious-and-demonstrates-the-perils-of-diplomacy-in-a-foreign-language/?utm_term=.da685cf5fc50