Sunday breakfast at the Movenpick

Lucinda suggested we get together for breakfast or brunch this morning, and we invited Christine C as well. Obviously the first choice for both of them, but not me, was Cafe de Grancy (I can't do those pancakes for a third time, even if it's the kids eating them).

So we talked about the Movenpick. Their Sunday brunch doesn't start again until 24th Sept but they do do breakfast. I rang, enquired and later booked even though it was an early start - 9am (breakfast finishes at 10.30am).

And it was really good. I'd been quoted Sf28 for the full buffet and Sf12 for the kids. But when the bill came it was only for the adults meals (four of us - me, Christine, Lucinda and her sister Caroline). The four children weren't charged as they're under 6 years old. Bargain!

Good price, relaxed atmosphere and ya gotta love a buffet. The food was good - birchermuesli, fresh, tinned and dried fruits, meats and cheeses, breads, croissants, other pastries, cereals, made to order omlettes, juices and teas/coffees, bacon, scrambled eggs and sausages. The only really bad thing ironically enough were the pancakes. Yuck! Rubbery and cold. Truly like no other food item I have seen before. I had to taste it to make sure it was as rubbery and awful as it looked (so pale and gross) and it was. So it's official - you can't get good pancakes here!

The kids played in the little playroom then afterwards we went across the road to the playground for the kids to run free (well, as much as you can in busy Ouchy). Christine had to get going, but Lucinda and I stayed on (unsurprisingly my kids were hungry later so I bought them pommes frites, a hotdog and a bottle of bubble water for Sf12!).

We didn't leave till 2pm...after a fun morning catching up and eating. And talking, briefly, about my leaving do. Who (the email list of people I told of our moving home), where (not sure yet, ideas will be sought) and when (Oct 21st).