For dinner Thursday, we went to a wonderful African, Madagascan, Indian, and West-Indian (West-Indies? Caribbean?) restaurant in Montpellier called Le Bouzou...

The business card states "Sous la chaleur des Tropiques Dans un cadre typique", which according to babelfish.altavista.com translates to "Under the heat of the tropics within a framework typical" (which probably means "within a typical setting" or something like that).

The card also lists the following specialties (in French), which after some web searching and translating yielded the following: Indiennes (Indian), Malgaches (from the island of Madagascar), Africaines (African), Mahoraises (from the island Mayotte, "the island with the perfumes ", a territorial community located in the Indian Ocean, in the north of the channel of Mozambique; southernmost of the four islands forming the archipelago of the Comoros geographically), and Antillaises (Antilles -> Caribbean -> Curacao, etc.). All in all, it was a fascinating place with an incredible menu and great atmosphere.

Thursday dinner, 1/28/2000; Le Bouzou:
Group photo, taken by the owner (see next photo)	The owner (and our waiter ), formerly a computer guru; he seems to really enjoy his new job!	When we told him we were taking pictures for my web page, he wanted to know the URL!	Another table photo
Bob and Christophe's girlfriend	Michel	Christophe	Christophe's girlfriend
Bob	Who are you and what have you done with Bob's head?	Mike	Rachid
Moi, with my favorite new drink, Pastis 51 (makes everything you eat or drink afterwards taste like licorice).	Scott	The owner is back, with after-dinner dried fruits, coffee beans, various things to smoke, and aphrodesiacs.	He leaves a little of everything on a plate for everyone to nibble on...
Uh-oh, it's "the chest". Infused rum, in over a dozen flavors...	Including one he calls "the little scream" and another (chaser) called "the antidote".	Scott, trying to keep a straight face after trying "the little scream" (infused with a bottle full of hot peppers).	A local from the next table (celebrating her birthday) came over to talk to the Americans to practice her english.
Interesting artwork painted on the wall behind our table.	The music inspired folks to dance.	More dancing.	Flaming coffee drink at the next table. No flash makes moving things blurry, but the flames turned out cool.

Did I mention that we left this place at about 1:30am? Not because it was closed, but because it was our last night in Montpellier. We had to get back to our rooms and pack, and then wake up at 5:00am to get ready to head to the airport for a 6:30am flight. After packing, I got to bed about 2:30 for about two and a half hours of sleep before having to get up again. I seriously considered just staying up, but figured that would make the next day of flying truly miserable. (Scott actually DID stay up; I think he slept most of the way back to L.A. from Paris. Luckly we were in business class so it wasn't too difficult to sleep.)

All images and movies were captured (at HQ resolution: 1600x1200, medium quality) with my new Olympus C&endash;2020 Zoom digital camera, and transferred to the PowerBook using the MicroTech Digital FlashFilm PC-Card reader for SmartMedia cards where I reduced them to 800x600 and 160x120.