So off we went to sample the wines at Quincy and Reilly, 2 small vineyards at the east of Bourges, the journey took about an hour.
We intended to eat on the way, and the restaurant in Quincy looked inviting, once we had explored the village and followed directions as it was just outside, but unfortunately they had a private booking and could not accommodate us so we moved onto Reilly.
I can only say that Reilly is a dump, the drive into the village is totally uninviting, the way we went in we were greeted by what seemed to be a scrap yard, it didn’t get better ! I must say that if we weren’t hungry we would have passed straight through, and forgot about the wine as well !
Anyway we were famished so we parked in the centre square of the village, which was actually very pretty, and just visible up the side street was a restaurant so in we went.
We could only have the menu, help yourself salad, moules – frittes fromage and dessert – 12 euros, wine and coffee included !
What can I say, it was perfect, nice light lunch, just what we wanted. We could have had lots of salad and as much cheese as we wanted (memories of Clerac ?) but we thought we would have an evening meal so it was lovely.
We then went on to Roche posay to meet up with Reg and Dianne.
