01 November 2008
Cruising in tandem on french river
About the last cruise in tandem. A lot of fun! A group of 13 people, too many to accommodate on L’Etoile.The idea is to cruise the same itinerary with two barges following each other. We had eight people staying on L’Etoile, five on the other barge. While cruising, the guests can decide on which boat they want to cruise that day, as long as we have the numbers on each boats. Lunches, although prepared by the two chefs, were mostly served on each barge seperately, to keep the program more flexible. All the dinners took place in L’Etoile. And it did fit! Now you can imagine how great that was! The two chefs divided the work of preparing of the meals, for example, one chef prepared the starter, the other chef the main course, so guests could appreciate the best creations of both chefs! Soon it became clear, that amongst our guests we had several other chefs on board. The second day the idea came up to have the last dinner on board prepared by the guest chefs to give us as ‘barge chefs’ a break What a fantastic idea. Next week I will tell you more about it, it all turned out great!