I have an interesting testimony that confirms what I told you earlier about the water and hospitality. It is all the more interesting as it was written by a RCAF airmen downed in France in July 1944
"Everybody brought me food and the Mayor and another chap dug in their cellars for some old brandy. in my time at their home I had never any water but drank all kinds of wine. I had really good, though sometimes peculiar meals. At one time I ate snails using a needle and many times we had pig's knuckles. Vegetables were plentiful and eggs and milk seemd always on the spot. I had quite a time adjusting to French black bread, but loved the many types of thick soup".

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