Still rushing around. Stayed in very nice Chambres d’Hotes in Grasse near Cannes, the villa Coste d’Or.

Hertz very kindly upgraded my hire car, instead of an Opel Corsa I got a huge BMW assault tank which guzzled fuel faster than I could fill it up.

Japanese birthday dinner included this shrimp dish
– boil some shrimps for 2 minutes, drain and plunge into cold water
– peel shrimps leaving the tail on
– marinate in a mixture of rice vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil finely chopped ginger and garlic
– add some finely sliced and peeled cucumber to the marinade
– serve sprinkled with sesame seds

Japanese chicken with seaweed
– Marinate small chicken pieces in the above marinade mixture
– Drain and roll in a mixture of cornflour and finely chopped Nori (Japanese seaweed used for making sushi)
– Fry in a little oil in the wok until chicken pieces are nice and crispy.