12 October 2024

Walking around in Mortagne

Before I found these photos I took in August 2011, I had forgotten how pretty Mortagne is. We were staying in a gîte that was an old farmhouse on the south of town. There were five of us (including two couples) and we had three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a big kitchen/living room. One of my goals was to buy and try some really good boudin noir. I like boudin noir and buy it here in the Saint-Aignan area several times a year, either in charcuterie shops and market stalls or in the supermarkets. In 2013 Walt and I even made an apple tart that contained some little "meatballs" of the blood sausage filling (here's a link), and it was delicious.




For some reason, I think my late friend Charles-Henry and I stayed in rooms at the hôtel du Tribunal (two photos, above left and below left) one night in 2015, when we were touring around in the Perche region on our way to Alençon. However, I can't find any photos of a visit to Mortagne in 2015.I just found a mention on an old blog post saying that C-H and I stayed in a hôtel in Mortagne. This has to be the one.

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  1. I just spent a few minutes enjoying photos of that hotel, online.
    All of the rooms are colorful and decorated differently, which is nice. It's great that it seems that many hotels and restaurants in France are still in business, years after the first time we've heard of them... around here, everything hotel changes names/companies every few years, it seems, and restaurants that aren't chains, don't last more than a few years.

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