日本旅行日誌（四）中
逛完朝市，就到火車站搭二十分鐘的火車到大沼公園。火車到大沼站時，我就準備下車，車上有位歐吉桑好心告訴我，應該在下一站--大沼公園站下車才對。 大沼公園的天然美景是由附近的駒之岳火山噴發出的熔岩形成大大小小的上百個島嶼，星羅棋佈的分佈在大沼、小沼、和蓴沼三個湖泊上。一走出火車站,就可看到幾間出租單車的店。好不容易來到這裡，當然要租輛單車好好欣賞眼前的美景！ 單車店的員工告訴我，如要繞湖一周起碼要騎兩個小時，因為我的時間有限，只能租一個小時。付了錢之後,就帶

著簡單的地圖上路,今日遊人不多,順著單車徑自由自在的享受這一小時的鐵騎之旅。騎到月見橋時，眼前的美景令我駐足,幾座精緻翠綠的小島突出湖面,晴空萬里無雲，那景色美得就像一幅畫...... 只可惜我的攝影技術欠佳,加上使用的又是儍瓜數碼相機,無法拍出這美景的萬分之一!即便如此,我還是按下快門，留住這一刻,待我白髮繽霜,滿臉縐紋，並且記憶力逐漸退化時,至少還有這萬分之一的美景可以讓我回憶！

 

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   This boulagerie shop in Montmartre near Sacre Coeur has won a 1st Prize for both their Baguettes as well as their Croissants in Paris.  The shop has roughly 30 outlets in Europe all the way to Tokyo.   The locals who live in this area and queuing in line with me told me excitedly that this IS the best shop in Paris when it comes to traditional sourdough breads and the same applies to their other pastries and tarts.    Since everyone is born different,  I will just write it as I discovered it myself.  

- Those Apricot,  Pear or Apple tarts,
just look superb -

- Kouing Amang -
*Kouign Amann,  to be precise and what I think they have meant to type..   

- Paris Award Winning Croissant -
This looked too pale in colours, right?  At that very moment,  I was thinking,  I am getting duped again with all these marketing fanfares and lies…  But the proof is in the pudding, and once I bit in I knew I was in for a home base run of a viennoserie.    The pastry layers literally bursted into a million shards as soon as I clamped my teeth together against the pastry,  the sound it made was completely new to me.  It was just educational.  The pale colour of the croissant was very deceiving indeed,  and they probably deliberately under-baked it knowing that the customer might re-heat it in the oven.  This was just so amazing and no wonder it has won the 1st Prize for the best croissant in town.  If only it was more browned by default,  but understandable from shop’s point of view.     ~  9/10 

- Citron Tart -
The shop highly recommended this.   The pate sucree crust was more on the softer side, and a plastic fork will cut through it easily like butter unlike many places which are more too hard crusty!  The citrus curd was quite tangy and had a very lime-like taste which really awakened your senses,  it was really refreshing and also both sour and sweet simultaneously.  Liked this ~  but probably think this was a little too pedestrian like to be artisanal and slightly too sweet in the background.   ~  7.5/10