Changes in Metung village

Since the start of the pandemic there have been a few changes in the village, obviously the wearing of masks is one but the other obvious change is the demise of some businesses and the opening of new. One of the new businesses is The Local Metung. The Local Metung is the provider of thin…

Progress in the village

“Start your day with coffee, end your day with wine.”  This sign is on the rebuilt restaurant in Metung village.  Those of you who follow the blog will remember that a fire destroyed the building about 18 months ago and the building had to be rebuilt like-for-like. The community is eagerly awaiting the opening of…

Summertime in Metung

I have posted several times about the Metung Hotel. This time I am showing you the view from the dining room during the holiday season.  The population in Metung seems to triple during the holiday season and we tend not to go down to the village very often.  This time we were visiting the pub…

The Metung Hotel

It is not often that we go out for dinner, usually it is when we are on holiday or there is a special occasion.  Yesterday we had both been working hard at home and neither of us felt like cooking dinner so we decided we would go down to the village pub for a meal. …

Belated benefits from a birthday

When we were recently in Melbourne we had dinner at this restaurant. A bit tricky to see on the computer but the business card was all in white, very clever as you had to tilt the card to see the name.  The back of the card had the information. Our elder daughter had given my husband…

Tuesday travels. . . .Pontorson for a meal.

Pontorson is situated about 10 kilometres from Mont St-Michel and we went there purely to get our evening meal.  We had read about this particular restaurant in the pamphlets in our Gîte but the restaurant was quite busy when we went later in the evening so we decided to go to another restaurant and we…