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Day 3289 (Wednesday) 10 th June 2026 This is Plage Passable in Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat and this is Cap Roux, the other side of Cannes. Huw had to clean Ken’s pool this morning and took these lovely photos on the way. I promise this is the very last of the weird French foods, warning to vegetarians not to read on… 14. Brains (Cervelle or Cerveaux: sayr-VELL or sayr-VOH) Like other offal – kidneys and tripe, for example – brains are losing popularity in France. Lamb and mutton brains are the most popular and delicate, but they have to be exceedingly fresh.  They’re reputed to be good for your health, packed with vitamin B12 and phosphorous. But they won’t make you smarter. As a child, I remember my mother frying them up, breaded, with lemon squirted on top, and it was always a treat. Today, I probably wouldn’t buy them to cook at home but if I trusted the restaurant, I might order them. I do understand, though, that some people might consider this one of the more disgusting dishes aro...
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  Day 3288 (Tuesday) 9 th June 2026 This is the Cote d’Azur from the sky and this was taken from the exotic garden in Eze Village.   It was another lovely sunny day and we went into Nice for our weekly kebab lapping up the sun in the park. We actually chose to sit in the shade and there was nobody sitting on the benches in the sun. All winter we’ve been sitting in the sun but it was quite hot today and the kebab was lovely. Yesterday Huw spotted a number of buoys being hung on the citadel wall so we went to have a look on the way home and it was quite lovely, we have no idea what they are for, is it art? Huw looked it up when we got home but couldn’t find anything but they are very pleasant.    As promised yesterday here are some more weird French foods. They are getting worse and I’ll warn you when they get disgusting. 7. Rabbit (Lapin: lah-PAN) Some 80% of French eat rabbit, according to one survey, but that number is decreasing, mostly because rabbit meat is beco...
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  Day 3287 (Monday) 8 th June 2026 Both of these photos were taken in Villefranche-sur-Mer. Here are some more unusual French foods, these dishes are bit yucky but there are worse to come tomorrow. 4. Foie Gras (fwah-GRAH) This staple of  France food culture  is the one that is probably most controversial, banned in some parts of the world (and increasingly, in corners of France itself): geese are force-fed to fatten their livers (foie gras actually means fatty liver), a practice that involves cruelty to animals. Here we're only coming around to that kind of thinking but foie gras is such a popular food in France that eliminating it is almost unthinkable, at least for now. Foie gras is incredibly popular, one of our most special French foods, and 93% of us eat it several times a year. It has been around as long as geese and ducks have been domesticated, their fat providing human consumption all year round.  In the beginning, our ancestors in the Middle East acq...
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