Un vraiment couteau l'Aguiole!
July 23, 2004
After leaving the yurt encampment on the Aubrac Thursday, JT, Kristi and I decide to go down to the village of l'Aguiole to check out the village famous for its handmade, bee-backed knives. At lunch Kristi and John surprise me with un cadeau d'alliance! Tears well up in my eyes and I become the incredibly proud and honoured owner of this boney beauty, a real cowgirl's knife.
In the last 36 hrs I have used this knife to: open up 2 bottles of wine, cut the tops off some garlic, cut the tops off some Cevenol onions (so sweet you can eat them raw), cut my dinner twice, cut some wedges of creamy fresh Cevenol sheep's cheese, cut up some porky sausages, and gut one kilo of sardines! Actually, Kristine did all the gutting.
Pictured above are the swift hands of new friend Kristine who on the banks of the river Vis, and with the aid of l'Aguiole extricates the innards of an about-to-be-bbq'd sardine.
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Comments
Good for you Kristi and John aren't superstitious...
The knife is really beautiful!
posted by Heleen at July 24, 2004 02:10 PM
i paid them 20 eurocent for it - great deal.
posted by Debra at July 24, 2004 06:21 PM
Smart deal. Save your friendship and have a great knife!
posted by Heleen at July 24, 2004 09:22 PM
