Pendant mes vacances, je suis allรฉ en France. Specifically St-Malo (and a bit of Paris, but there were no flรฉchettes to be found there), a beautiful fortress town on the North coast of France. I went for total immersion, reading only Patrick OโBrian Napoleonic-era naval fiction where some of the fortifications date from, visiting Dinard to pretend I was the bloke in Eric Rohmerโs Conte dโรฉtรฉ and playing darts with the locals in a Hawaiian-themed bar. I count myself very lucky we found a steel-tip board. We found an electronic arcade-style soft-tip machine on the first night, which I had almost resigned myself to. The bar had a variety of beers on tap, mostly from the Atlantic Brewery. I sampled many over a few days, enjoying the Rousse, which I think is a new style to me.
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