Ah, that's who he was. I thought he was a mate of yours, didn't realise you'd just met him
The conversation later became very odd; he was apparently "well-in" with the cafe proprietor, but was saying all sorts of stuff about France being a third-world country, which was obviously irritating Monsieur.
That was on that interminable section after Villaines, in the middle of the night, after we'd made MattC entertainments officer, but he'd ridden off and left us.