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March 14 in Saint-Malo, France – 14 mars à Saint-Malo, France

14 Monday Mar 2016

Posted by philipdenotto in mars poster 2016 - March post 2016

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bricorama, cormorant, Croissants, e leclerc, france, Intra-Muros, La Fournee Malouine, la poste, magpie, Saint-Malo

Posting March 14 on March 14.  The blog is current.  We will try to keep it that way.

croissant from La Fournee Malouine

croissant from La Fournee Malouine

Monday March 14 and Sandy got some extraordinary croissants from the La Fournee Malouine boulangerie for breakfast this morning.

By 9:00 we are headed off by bus to the E.Leclerc shopping area in Saint-Malo.  The center store is E.Leclerc which is a hypermarche.  It is similar to a Target SuperCenter or a Meijer store.  We try very hard to shop at the small stores and markets, but once in while you have to go to the larger stores.  You just don’t find much toilet paper being sold at the local markets.

Today we are looking at rubber boots for wading excursions into the ocean.  We also have a short list of items to buy like laundry detergent and crackers.  Sandy found some rubber boots which fit.  She didn’t buy them because she wants to look around at other choices before making a decision.  Sandy did by some cute chocolate

easter chocolate fish from E.Leclerc

Easter chocolate fish from E.Leclerc

Easter fish. We also got a new SIM card for Phil’s cellphone at the E.Leclerc Culture shop which is next to the hypermarche.

After E.Leclerc we walked a hundred yards to the Bricorama store.  It is a hardware store similar to Ace Hardware in the USA.  It is much smaller than a Home Depot or a Lowes.

Eurasian magpie

Eurasian magpie

Between E.Leclerc and Bricorama we saw a magpie (actually a Eurasian magpie, apparently there are many varieties).  They really are an interesting and attractive bird. There are quite a few of them around Saint-Malo, but not in the Intra-Muros area where we live.

We took the bus back to the Saint-Malo Intra-Muros bus stop and walked home from there.  The bus stop is 600 meters (656 yards, .37 miles, .6 kilometers) from our apartment.

For lunch we had a nice minestrone soup with fresh bread and fruit.

After lunch we took a walk to the post office (La Poste, the French mail service) to mail a letter and a postcard. We then walked to the harbor to see what was happening there.  It was pretty quiet in the harbor.  The tide was in today.  The other days it had been out when we visited the harbor.  The cormorant was fishing for food again today.  I guess he does that everyday (no market or hypermarche for him/her), but I don’t often see him/her.

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March 13 in Saint-Malo, France – 13 mars à Saint-Malo, France

14 Monday Mar 2016

Posted by philipdenotto in mars poster 2016 - March post 2016

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digue, france, Intra-Muros, La Fournee Malouine, Saint-Malo

Still in catch up mode. Posting March 13 on March 14.

Today Sunday March 13 is the first day Sandy walked early in the morning to buy fresh bread for breakfast.  She went to our second most favorite bakery/boulangerie La Fournee Malouine.  It had been closed until last Thursday while they were on vacation.

Since it was cold, windy, and/or rainy the last few days, we had been eating “leftover bread” from the previous evening meal for breakfast. We had also been eating food left here from 2014. So leftover bread didn’t taste as bad as stale Honey Nut Cheerios from 2014.  Phil bought bread for breakfast yesterday morning, a rare occurrence.

We walked on the “digue,” which is a dike like structure which runs between the beach and street. Even though the sun was shining brightly it was cold.  The wind was blowing at 24 kph. We walked around the castle where the walkway was closed during high tide and through the city back to our apartment.

the digue

the digue

the digue

the digue

 

 

 

 

We cooked pork chops (from our local butcher) for lunch with new potatoes and fresh zucchini.  Our son Michael wanted to “FaceTime” at 10:30 am his time.  Sandy listed his call on our calendar but forgot that he had changed to Daylight Saving Time. For the next couple of weeks he is only 6 hours different, not 7. France implements daylight savings time on Easter day this year. So his call came through at 16:30, not 17:30.  It was good to see his face and hear his voice.  We miss him!

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