In Lille with Yann

Bonjour

Would like to start of this post by saying Happy Birthday to Liina, our lovely friend back home, hopefully your day will be filled with great moments =)

So this is our 6th and last day in Lille. We're staying with Yann, who is an awesome host :)

After having our breakfast, an interesting meal with vegetables and black rice noodles, we headed out on town for a "Quest of Cheddar". Apparently on sunday all shops in Lille close around 12:30 - 13:00, which is quite annoying, being used to having shops open all the time back home. We were looking for a shop because Yann needed to get some cheddar cheese for his special Welsh dish. Having spent couple of hours walking around Lille and looking for an open shop that had some cheddar. Unfortunately the few shops we found were so small, that there was almost no chance of finding some english cheese from them. At some point we were joined by Thomas, Yann's friend and co-worker, who eventually offered to make some pancakes for dinner, as the planned dish wouldn't be the same without cheddar. So now we'll have a small pancake party with Yann and some of his friends :)

The party turned out to be awesome. Thomas kicked off the pancake cooking and showed us his culinary skills. Must say he his pretty good at the kitchen. Later in the evening Dan, british friend of Yann's who happened to be in town, and others as well had a go with the pan :P

Must say, Britannic styled pancakes are really good. Perhaps some day we'll manage to learn how to make them ourselves, so we can give people back home a taste. Also we are looking forward to the moment, when we can taste Yann's special Welsh dish ;)

It was a really great experience to meet with all of the party members and hopefully we can repeat it at some point. For now, we'll be heading out to hitch-hike to Paris, wish us luck and see you in Paris ;)

Note of the day: If you want to shop on sunday in France, then good luck, because you have to get up early!

Cooking with Yann :)

Making pancakes

Pancakes vol2