Cherbourg - Day Two: Food Glorious Food!

Jet lag is a crazy thing. I woke up last night at 2:30am after four hours, having forgotten to take a melatonin at bedtime; decided to take one at 3 and eventually fell asleep… and woke up at 2pm! But I guess fourteen hours of sleep makes sense given that I’d been up for 28 hours the day(s) before…

Anyway I woke up feeling refreshed and rested, and Vero and I had a lovely day together. Vero’s house is in the country, just ten minutes from central Cherbourg - she drove us downtown, we parked and walked around the center, buying seafood and fresh foods for dinner.

On the way, I got caught up on the various members of the family: Tony and his wife (who is struggling with multiple health issues), Karine and her family (Vero says she loves Karine’s son!) and just a little about Laetitia, who evidently is now growing her own business as a personal coach.

I’m struggling to stay on my gluten/dairy free diet here… basically falling off the wagon with dairy on Day One with the food I bought for the train ride (potatoes with sausage in a mushroom cream sauce) and then enjoying some Camembert last night after dinner (served on tasty rice crackers that Vero had on hand).

During my 3am waking period I felt my old allergies returning and ended up taking an allergy tab - which seems to have helped, and it will be interesting to see how I feel tomorrow morning once its effects have worn off.

Meanwhile, this evening’s meal - feast, really - included some delicious bread, with equally delicious butter, followed by an exquisite lemon cake — specialty of Cafe PomPom in Cherbourg. Otherwise I managed to avoid dairy all day. I had intestinal distress this evening before bed; not sure if it was the travel, the dairy, the bread, or something else that triggered it. (As usual, my powers of scientific discernment are sub-par.) But man, is the food yummy!