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29 March in Saint-Malo – 29 mars à Saint-Malo

29 Tuesday Mar 2016

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Today is Tuesday March 29 2016.  Sandy purchased a croissant and baguette for breakfast.

After breakfast Sandy shopped at the Intra-Muros marche.  “Our” vegetable / fruit seller was there and Sandy purchased strawberries, navel oranges, pears, carrots, cherry tomatoes, a sweet potato, and some tiny new golden potatoes.

We walked to the bus stop at St. Vincent’s gate and took bus #1 to the Maupertuis stop.  From here we walked 10 minutes (almost all up hill) to shop at the Secours Catholique (Catholic Relief) thrift shop.  Sandy bought a night-gown, two pairs of socks and a washing mitt which is like a wash cloth for your hand to fit into.  She watches the price signs on items as she shops to help her with French numbers. She thought she was spending around 3 – 4 euros.  As she was checking out, the sales lady told her the price was “quatre-vingt-dix “.  All Sandy heard was the “quatre” or four because the night-gown was at least one euro.  She was mistaken as the price for all four items was 90 (quatre-vingt-dix or 4 twenties and ten) centimes / cents.  Apparently the lady reduced the price on all  items to 20 centimes / cents each. So Sandy got some very good buys.

We walked to Saint-Servan to take the bus back and decided it was such a nice sunny day, around 50 F or 10 C, that we’d walk back.

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Au Panier d’Italie

On the way, we stopped in at the Au Panier d’Italie (In the basket of Italy) an Italian take way shop. We purchased lasagna, bolognese sauce, and vegetable gratin to enjoy for dinner.

On our walk back to the apartment we had to cross the

in the lock / recluse

in the lock / recluse

bridge over the lock / ecluse. When we reached the bridge, we could hear the alarm and see that the bridge was

open.  We watched 5 ships come into the basin and two more went into the lock / ecluse to enter the harbor.

As we got closer to the Port Dinan to enter the Intra-Muros, we saw that the Brittany Ferry was pulling away from it’s dock.  As the Brittany Ferry was leaving the dock,  the Condor Ferry was arriving at the dock.

Condor Ferry

Condor Ferry

Brittany Ferry

Brittany Ferry

 

Mornings are usually more interesting in the harbor!

The Italian food from the Au Panier d’Italie made a wonderful dinner.

All our pictures for March in Saint-Malo France can be viewed at 2016-03 March in Saint-Malo on Flickr.  They will open in a separate window.

26 March in Saint-Malo – 26 mars à Saint-Malo

26 Saturday Mar 2016

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Today is Saturday March 26.  First thing was to mail a letter to our friends in Paris.  The letter contained some pictures of the work being done to our street.  It will be of interest to them.

From the post office (la poste) we walked to the Quic-En-Groigne hotel which our friends run.  We had purchased some chocolates as a surprise for them.  We delivered the chocolates this morning and they were pleasantly surprised.  Michel commented about the quality of chocolates, so we knew we had made the right choice.

Now out to the harbor to see what was happening.  Not much, but the Brittany Ferry ship BRETANGE was in the harbor.  It looked like the people were all on board, but they were still loading some trucks and tractor-trailers.  The BRETANGE set out from port a couple of minutes late, 10:35.  We had walked to the end of the breakwater (mole), right to the small light house at the end of the mole.  From there Phil was able to take a few pictures of the BRETANGE passing the light house.  Quite a sight to be that close to the big ferry at it headed for Portsmouth in England.

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The family who has the top floor (6th floor in the USA and 5th in France) of our building came to town today.  They live outside of Paris and use the apartment only on holidays and in the summer.  They brought a desk and chair into the building and took it to the top floor.  Quite a few stairs to climb as we do not have an elevator.

At 15:00 we went to the Salle Sainte Anne (small local auditorium) to hear a presentation by a man who has spent much of the last 35 years in Saint-Malo researching the city.  The topic today was his last 35 years researching Saint-Malo.  How appropriate. He is a bit of an amateur historian.  In the past we had attended his presentation on Chateaubriand in Saint-Malo and his presentation on the history of The Old Streets of Saint-Malo.  In both cases he had used a slide show for his presentation and there had been a lot of slides, 2 hours worth!  This time he did not have a slide show. In fact he only had his paper binders which he used to reference information.  It was interesting, but it was very slow for Sandy since it was all verbal and nothing visual.

We left at 16:30 and found that it had rained quite heavily while we were at the presentation.  We headed toward the apartment, but stopped at a chocolatier / patisserie and picked up a dessert for this evening.  It was quite good!

All our pictures for March in Saint-Malo France can be viewed at 2016-03 March in Saint-Malo on Flickr.  They will open in a separate window.

March 18 in Saint-Malo, France – 18 mars à Saint-Malo, France

18 Friday Mar 2016

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Friday March 18 and today Phil and I walked to Saint-Servan.  Saint-Servan is a district in Saint-Malo which is across the bridge and up a hill.  It was cool, about 40F but little wind.  The forecast is for windy days this weekend with gusts up to 65 kph or 40 mph.  We stopped at the Au Panier d’Italie a shop selling take out Italian delicacies. We purchased gratin de legumes, courgette farcies and cheese ravioli. Dinner.

Our next stop was the market which is twice weekly in Saint-Servan, Tuesday and Friday.  We wandered around the exterior stalls and looked at kitchen gadgets, clothing, and flowers.  We walked inside to get in line at the butcher’s shop.  The proprietor we knew from 2013 and 2014 was back at work.  He remembered us. His  assistant greeted Sandy in English.  Sandy greeted the assistant in French.  Sandy and the assistant then practiced reading the price of the purchase in each others language.

We stopped at a vegetable (legume) stall to purchase Batavia lettuce.  We wandered around a bit more then walked home.

As we crossed the bridge over the lock (la écluse) we noticed that the Brittany Ferry was getting ready to depart at it’s usual 10:30 am schedule.  We hurried to the harbor to watch it leave.  It looks huge!  All of the vehicles and passengers will be docking in the U.K.around 18:30 tonight.

The Brittany Ferry at dock, starting to leave and passing the breakwater (mole) lighthouse.

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We also saw the “Captain Taxi” which is a water taxi which operates in the harbor between Saint-Malo and Dinard.

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The walk to Saint-Servan is 1.6 kilometers (km). About 2 miles for the round trip.

route from the apartment to the market in Saint-Servan

route from the apartment to the market in Saint-Servan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sandy has been starting to wash some of the windows this week.  She and the gulls are having a disagreement.  She thinks the window sills should stay clean and the gulls disagree.

For dinner we cooked the Italian food we had purchased in the morning.

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Jour 138 à Saint-Malo – Day 138 in Saint-Malo

02 Thursday Oct 2014

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Jeudi 2 octobre, nous avons eu la classe de français avec Christine pendant deux heures le matin. Sur notre après-midi de marche, nous avons vu un bateau de 15420504305_e42e2888be_hcroisière de quitter le port. Le petit bateau-pilote escorté hors de la voie, car nous l’avons vu revenir. Le ferry Bretagne15233850300_0be6a0f428_h a été amarré dans le port et doit avoir été quitte bientôt puisque nous avons vu de la fumée noire provenant de cette pile de fumée.

Thursday October 2 we had French class with Christine for two hours in the morning.  On our afternoon walk we saw a cruise ship leaving the port.  The little pilot boat escorted it out of the channel because we saw it return.  The Brittany ferry was docked in the harbor and must have been leaving soon since we saw black smoke coming from it’s smoke stack.