Highlights today included a nougat candy factory, the Musee de Chasseaurs (shoe museum) in Romans, a small vineyard tasting, and settling into Viene for an overnight. The candy factory was surprisingly fun, and I never cared much for nougat but after watching them make it in antique copper kettles I was a fan.n they make one variety to look like olives - an almond coated first in black and white chocolate, hen sealed in a green tinted coating. Looks just like the native fruit! After that we hit a Carrefour supermarket to buy makings for a roadside picnic lunch. You can buy sliced sandwich-style goat cheese here, and amazingly tasty alpine strawberries.
Cheese aisle at Carrefour
Copper nougat making kettle
Hi-tech marshmallow cutter!
Can only be the shoe museum in Romans!
Laura - check these Chinese boots for a 3" bound foot
The family winery
Lining up the tasting glasses
I bought a red here for "cellaring"; remind me in 2015.
Rhone River in Viene
Dinner group at L'Etable du Boucher in Viene. The man with mustache, no glasses is our driver Sylvain. Art's sister Olga and her husband Art are by the window. We drank a rose wine produced by "Jolie-Pitt" and the winemaker they hired away from Chateauneuf du Pape - quite nice but still not my perfect rose. We lucked out eating with the French speakers.
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