@fergie47 I’m not fussed myself, preferring beef or buff, but kangaroo is supposed to be very healthy, low fat meat.
OK, a couple of comments. The Casse Croute Charentais is very familiar to me though you have to know it to find it these days as it is no longer on the main road. But what strikes me is what on earth were those 2 drivers thinking about who nosed up to the low white wall instead of reversing alongside the majority behind them. If the rear rank fills up and they find others alongside them it could be tricky trying to reverse out later. If I remember rightly there is more parking on the other side of what used to be the N10. An older hand once told me years ago ‘always park facing the exit’, advice which I have always followed unless I wanted to be the other end of a rattling frigo. 
Another favourite and frequent stop for me was the Oppidum, on the old N9 near Beziers (towards Narbonne). I once spotted this oddity parked opposite it. No idea why the driver parked there, there was room in the parking and he wasn’t exactly overlong. Perhaps he just wanted to admire it as he ate his dinner. 
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I had kangaroo stew some 25 years ago in a Routier near Nevers. Really good!
Hi Johnny…hope all’s well with you and your family…We’re OK here in a rather chilly Bretagne…lots of DIY and Motorbike servicing to keep me busy and warm. Had a good chat with that wayward Whippersnapper last Sunday, he’s still punching that old Volvo all around Europe…last trip. Italy to Denmark…good life for a youngster…
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Excellent Dave. Ah yes - the wayward Whippersnapper… it is good he has you to have a positive influence - where possible!
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Johnny…he’ll get those little skinny white legs slapped if he doesn’t behave by Mrs F…although i’m inclind to thinks he’s begining to enjoy it,…
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Went to see a friend today and passed this transport yard on-route, saw this “anniversary” trailers. At least this company has survived 50 odd years…
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Isn’t he getting a bit old for slapped legs now? I have never met him but came close one day when we were both exchanging texts somewhere in the South of France. Couldn’t quite make the connection though. Same with you too Dave, after our brief email contact at the start of covid I did make one last lunge into Breton territory, but it was a late arrival and complicated departure the next morning. Maybe one day.
Willeme, of Nantere in France. Traditionally they used AEC engines but were using a variety by the '70s when this model appeared. It has a Cummins badge on the grille.
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Have previously put a picture of this Willeme when it was getting used in Sonamets offshore fabrication yard in Lobito, Angola to move various loads around the site first saw it in 2005. Anyway fast forward to 2023 and she looks a bit sad and abandoned shame really.
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Why don’t you save up, or fork out some pennies and rescue her Johnny? What do you reckon the engine is? Rad’s gone so can’t see a badge, Cummins?
Could be an interesting drive back from Lobito to Germany, write a book about it and get your money back. 
Is it a Daf cab?
Looks more like a Dennison but I would doubt that-more knowledgable peeps on here might know.
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Didn’t Dennison use Sisu cabs. Why am i thinking of Tyson H Burridge ?
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I’ve already said it’s got a Cummins badge, immediately after the post . The cab is French, I think. Certainly not a Sisu or DAF cab.
The cab must be a Pelpel. The big Willème TGs were in fact built by PRP (Perez & Raimond Paris), who bought the licence when Willème stopped production in 1971. Various engines were available: Cummins, Detroit/GM (including a big 520 bhp V 16) and also Mercedes at the end in 1980/81.
Caption for this Williem says its a 350 Cummins…
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