This small commune and its church are named after Saint Sabina from Rome. There are not many buildings in the commune, but there are two restaurants and one boulongerie (baker). We ate at Chez Edith which is advertised as a family restaurant.

The Menu du Jour (menu of the day) costs you €11.50 each and consists of 1/4 L of wine each and the following courses in this order.

Potage – which we thought was potato and leek soup.

Entrée – which was a sample of cold meats. We could not believe how soft the ham was. Amongst the most delicate we’ve ever tasted.

Plat – which was a grillade or mixed grill including duck leg, pork sausage and skirt steak with the best frites ever.

Fromage – a plate of mixed cheeses which were unreal. Followed by…..

Dessert – Michael chose the rhubarb tart and I chose the fromage blanc. I was not sure what this was going to be. But it was a cross between plain yoghurt and cottage cheese. I was brought a jar of sugar to sweeten it with but it was perfect as it was.

Michael gave a huge tip to the cute French waitress who served us, as we did enjoy the meal and it was very cheaply priced. Plus – he told me he had to pay extra as he had booked the restaurant out so we could dine alone. How romantic?

We went for a bit of a walk around the small commune after lunch before heading back to where we are staying which is 3 km away.

The other restaurant in town is very famous and has received a Michelin star. We hope to get time to come back to it. But there are quite a few excellent restaurants in the area. Lunch is better for us as I am not too keen driving these roads at night and after a glass of vin rouge.

As we left Saint Sabine Michael took some photos of one of the commune’s biggest businesses. It converts grass and lucerne into pellets for fodder, and it creates a fair amount of pollution. I doubt if it would get a guernsey in Australia.