I'm a painful travel nerd, and that's OK

By The Backpacker
Updated July 30 2014 - 11:08am, first published July 29 2014 - 3:36pm

It's the oysters that bring it all together. Last time the three of us ate oysters was in the French ski town of Meribel. We'd bought them still live from a deli on the main street, purchased a shucking knife, Googled some instructions, and brought them home to wrestle with them in the kitchen sink. Oyster shucking - it's not as easy as it looks. We spent a good half-hour prising a dozen of them open, eventually laying them on the table to eat with our bread, our cheese, our saucisson and our champagne.

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