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Chambre de Metiers et
de l' Artisanat
Thanet college's third year's visit to
a french college for a week between 27th June & 1st July 05
| Monday 27th June |
| We met in college at 8.50am, for a 9.00am set off.
We traveled by coach for the whole journey, we traveled to folkeston and
boarded the eurotunnel.
The eurotunnel took approx 30 minutes to get to Calais, and we then stopped
at Cite Europe for lunch.
We dinned together in an itallian restaurant, having a 2 course meal form
the a l' carte menu.
The next stop was via a detour we took, at Tobbaco Road in Belgium.
We arrived at the hotel at 7.30pm french time, and had dinner at 8.30pm. |
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| Tuesday 28th June |
We met for breakfast at the hotel at 7.30am .
We departed from the hotel at 8.15am for a 20 minute walk to the college.
We had Charcuterie with french tutor Eric Mullier
We boned and stuffed quales, and then cooked them:
We then produced Des Pains Surprise, which are a variety of sandwiches
placed in the crust of a bread loaf:
We later produced a fish dish created from salmon, fillets of dover sole
and whiting mousse:
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| Wednesday 29th June |
We worked in the chocolate class with french tutor
Philippe Gilbert.
We learnt a new meathod of tempering chocolate by hand, on a marbile slab.
We spent all day producing chocolate ribbons, chocolate ciggarets and
caskets.
We used plastic strips, plastic sheets, and wood graining tools.
We finished off by producing moulded chocolate pralines.
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| Thursday 30th June |
We spend the day doing Boulangerie (Bakery) with
Daniel Pinot.
We produced Croissants, Pain de Campagne (Large round loaf), Pain de tradition
francaise sur poolish (Bagguettes), Decoration des pains (a dough used
for decorative items - roses ontop of bread below).
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| Friday 1st July |
We spent the morning doing Vienoiserie with french
tutor Daniel Pinot.
We produced Pate de brioche and Pain de mie:
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The trip was very worth while and I learnt a lot while on the
trip, in some ways I wish that some of the learning methods used had been used
by my own college, as I found them better for learning.
Here is a copy of a news paper article we featued in while in
France:
(click on images to enlarge)
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