Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Is it not a bit risky drinking that much in France nowadays?

Not if your wife is driving you back. :-)

Seriously though, drink driving is endemic in the countryside. It's best, if you have to drive between 1 and 3pm to assume that everyone on the road is pissed. The older the driver the drunker he will be. It's hard to tell in a country with such poor driving standards anyway.

The guy we bought our house from only sold it because his kids took his car keys away, at the age of 90. He had been merrily driving from mate's house, to bar, to cafe every day drinking wine at each place and coming home ratarsed.