Héraultais:
I am quite new to driving lorries, but my wifes cousin has been driving for years and mainly international. A couple of years after we moved to France he was in our area and suggested we meet up at the Relais des Capucins at Trebes on the N113 between Carcassonne and Narbonne. If you have ever stopped there you will know what a shock it was for my wife to see the old girl who runs it behind the bar with her string top on, no bra and hard ■■■■■■■ sticking out, along with skimpy hotpants. No wonder the parking area behind was full!My wifes cousin was quite sheepish and admitted that he couldn’t quite remember what is was that made the place stick in his mind!
Anyway after the initial shock we had a couple of dirnks then a fantastic four course meal, all for about 12€ a head.
Sadly it has closed down now, the old girl has finally hung up her hotpants.
Trèbes. Le rideau est tombé sur le Relais des Capucins - ladepeche.fr
I’m sorry I missed that one Heraultais. Last year I was loading in the morning at a regular place for me to the east of Carcassonne and looking for a place to stop overnight. Normally in these cases I stop at the Cheminiers on the Castelnaudary by-pass but this time I was coming from the south and I spotted this in my routier book and also found it on Google Maps so committed myself to going there. It is still shown on the latter as being open.
You can imagine I was well ticked off when I found it shut and was forced to going a long way out of my way to park up at the Relais des Corbieres at Lezignan-Corbieres. Fortunately that one is a very good traditional routier with everyone seated at one long table and I have stopped there several times since. It seems to be run by one couple, perhaps with one other hired staff. Amazing when you consider that I think there are rooms above for commercial travellers too.