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6 mai à Saint-Malo – May 6 in Saint-Malo

06 Friday May 2016

Posted by philipdenotto in mai 2016 poster - May 2016 post

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cafe le charlys, ferme les aubriais, grande maree, le charlys, maison du quebec, Saint-Servan

Friday May 6, 2016 we wake up still tired from our walks yesterday.  It is sunny and the predicted high is 23 C or about 74 F.

Sandy bought a croissant, pain au chocolat, and a baguette Festival for our breakfast.  After breakfast she shopped at the Intra-Muros market for salad and fresh fruit.

Our main task this morning was to shop at the Saint-Servan marché.  On our walk across the bridge we could see portable railings and planters on the quay.  This usually indicates that a passenger or cruise ship will be docking soon.  We’ll have to watch and see.

We want to cook a pork roast for Sunday dinner which means a trip to the butcher, Ferme les Aubriais. The assistant is always glad to see us and greeted us in English and Sandy responded in French. They both like this little bit of banter. We purchased a small pork roast, 2 sausages and some sandwich ham.

Phil made reservations for us to have dinner at Divers’ Cité, then met our neighbor Jean for a coffee at Le Charly’s bar.

Sandy walked to the local Carrefour City for butter and ice cream. MDQ

After lunch we took the garbage and recycling to one of the garbage / poubelle centers. We then mailed a letter to the United States. We stopped at the Maison du Quebec which opened last weekend just to say “bonjour.”  The free weekly movies they sponsor will begin next week.

We walked along the ramparts that were full of visitors.  It was low tide and many people were out searching for crustaceans.  It was slow walking long the ramparts because everyone was stopping long the walls to look at the extremely low tide. We could see sand bars in places where we usually see water.

low tide - looking west (click to enlarge)
low tide – looking west (click to enlarge)
low tide - looking west (click to enlarge)
low tide – looking west (click to enlarge)
Fort National at low tide (click to enlarge)
Fort National at low tide (click to enlarge)

We ended our walk on the ramparts and descended to harbor area.  The tide was so low we could see the harbor area where the dredging vessel had been busy increasing the depth of the harbor.

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Area of the harbor being dredge to accommodate the fishing boats

Tonight starts the “Grande Maree” of high tide with a coefficient of 112.  We plan to see it tomorrow when the coefficient will be 114 around 20:00.  The sun doesn’t set here until after 21:25 so there’s plenty of time to look at the sea.

We will be off to dinner at Divers’ Cite in about 30 minutes.  Looking forward to a good time.

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April 20 in Saint-Malo – 20 avril à Saint-Malo

20 Wednesday Apr 2016

Posted by philipdenotto in avril poster 2016 - April 2016 post

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cafe le charlys, carrefour city, cormorant, Intra-Muros, le charlys, new york, plymouth, Saint-Malo, transat bakerly

Wednesday April 20 started out as a very windy day and ended as a very windy day.

Not much planned for today.  Sandy is a bit fatigued today.  It is because of the stress of the visit to the dentist yesterday.  Even though it worked out much better than expected, Sandy had been quite agitated and upset about the whole thing.  From the time she broke the tooth on Sunday evening, until we returned home from the dentist she had really been  stressed about the whole thing.  Now it is matter of calming down and realizing how fortunate we were to find a dentist so easily and to have him fix her broken tooth in less than 1 hour.  Being so stressed is easy to understand, and it takes time to recover.

Phil and his friend Jean went out for a coffee this morning.  They went to the Cafe Le Charlys which is about 100 feet from our apartment building.  Coffee, discussion, and people watching are the main activities at Le Charlys.

After a while, Sandy showed up at Le Charlys.  Phil and Sandy then did some walking around the Intra-Muros and shopped for some fruit.  Then it was back to apartment to do some chores and homework.

This afternoon we went to the pharmacy to get some prescriptions refilled.  Then we walked out to the basin Vauban to see what was happening with the sailing boats involved with the Transat bakery race.  The wind which had been strong in the morning had lessened around lunch.  But now around 4 PM / 16:00 the wind was picking up and the sky was getting quite gray.  It looked like it might rain.  We walked around the RACE VILLAGE which is 15 or 20 marques which are set up for the race.

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The RACE VILLAGE in Saint-Malo

The marques have vendors and organizations displaying their offerings.  Sandy stopped by a couple of places which were giving away pastries.  We’ll have them for breakfast on Friday when we have to take an early train to Rennes.

The preliminary race from Saint-Malo to Plymouth will be on April 23.

The real race from Plymouth to New York will set off on May 2.

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The race has 3 or 4 different classes of boats, but the most interesting part of the race is that it is solo race.  The boat has only one person abroad, the captain.the-race-map-en

We walked over to the harbor and sat for a while enjoying the view and the fresh air.  We did get to see a cormorant.  The bird was sitting atop a tall pole.  They often do this to dry their weathers after swimming for the food. But, there was not much else going on and as the wind continued to build it was getting quite cool.  We headed back to apartment to warm up.

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CORMORANT surveying its domain

 

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