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Our final day in La Rochelle, we explored the many shops looking for gifts and drooling over the windowdisplays of the pastry and chocolate shops. We had a light lunch right on the port (though my husband’s yen for chocolate must have been ignited for he had a chocolate crepe for dessert). We went to the labyrinthine Chez Andre near the port for dinner where we ordered another enormous platter of seafood, this one the mother of all seafood platters. There were oysters which are shucked on the sidewalk in front of the rpstaurant, snails, mussels, shrimps, crayfish, crabs and other things in shells. All of our immediate dinner-neighbors were enjoying the same meal (okay, we copied). The weighty platter is hoisted onto a substantial wire holder, kept warm with a steady blast of sterno, and the white wine flows. Our waiter politely handed us, in addition to the various small forks we needed to dig out the shellfish morsels, a cork studded with sturdy straight pins, for the snails, he said. The pins did their job as we rounded out the meal by successfully spearing tiny snails, a first for us!
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