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the week ending Sunday September 4, 2022 – la semaine se terminant le dimanche 3 septembre 2022

04 Sunday Sep 2022

Posted by philipdenotto in 2022-France

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bas sablons, basin vauban, Christine, cormorant, esplanade saint-vincent, franklin, french air force, intermarche super, le ponton, magpie, michael douglas, michel, mole, pie, quai de porte saint-louis, rocabey, stacy schiff, voluntary intake points


MONDAY-29th We walked out to the digue when it was high tide.  It was 19°C (66°F) and fairly windy.  Lovely to be outside with an air quality index of just 3 (an excellent score).  We decided there were a few thousand less people out today than yesterday.  All of a sudden, we saw 8 French air force jets in the sky trailing blue, white and red air-show smoke, the colors of the French flag.  What a nice surprise!

FRENCH AIR FORCE JETS TRAILING THE BLUE, WHITE, AND RED OF THE FRENCH FLAG

We were invited for an aperitif to Christine and Michel’s house in the Paramé section of Saint-Malo.  We took the bus to the stop in Paramé. It was very windy as we walked the 15 minutes from the bus stop to their house.  They have a huge home, lovely garden with a sheltered outside corner they refer to as their summer dining room/living room.  We sat outside where they served a variety of appetizers that were very tasty. 

We enjoyed talking to them and hearing about their family.  Christine and Michel’s daughter and her husband, with their 5 month old son will be moving to the Washington DC area for the next three years. He will be working in the DC area and she will be working from home for a company in New York city. They are waiting for their US work visas and will be moving in the next couple of months. 

It was kind of Michel and Christine to drive us back to the Esplanade St. Vincent at the end of the evening.

TUESDAY-30th Cool and very windy when we walked to and from the Intermarché Super for our weekly shopping.  On the way back we stopped in at the boulangerie in Rocabey. 

Hot on our way home!!  The hour of walking plus the 30 – 45 minutes of shopping is exhausting!  

LARGE CRUISE SHIP IN THE BAY

WEDNESDAY-31st The city has installed new, completely underground, “voluntary intake points” for garbage, recycling, etc.  We stopped at the closest one to our apartment at Porte St. Louis.  A city worker was waiting there to inform and help everyone using the new facility.  He explained to us that when the underground garbage container is nearly full, an automatic SMS will be sent so the container can be exchanged.  There is no odor, it is much cleaner, and signs are hanging on each area to explain what should be put inside.  This year none of the “yellow bags” that the city gives out should be put into the recycling area.  Next year they will be accepted. 

NEW, COMPLETELY UNDERGROUND, “VOLUNTARY INTAKE POINTS” FOR GARBAGE, RECYCLING, ETC. 
NEW, COMPLETELY UNDERGROUND, “VOLUNTARY INTAKE POINTS” FOR GARBAGE, RECYCLING, ETC. 

Then we walked to the harbor at high tide.  We walked to the end of the mole and were the only people on it.  It was wonderful!  We were even able to return home on the main street.  So many fewer people!

SIGN INDICATING THE DEPTH OF THE CHANNEL INTO THE BAS SABLONS HARBOR

THURSDAY-1st Walked to the Marche de Rocabey early at 8:30 to try and beat the predicted rain.  Shopped at the butcher, charcuterie, olives, and Thai restaurant.  Stopped at the boulangerie, and the post office to pick up a package.  Walked home and stopped at the Presse to buy the newspaper.  All accomplished before 10 am. 

In the local paper, Pays Malouin, Sandy read where another movie will be filmed here in September.  Michael Douglas will have the principal role in a film to be viewed on Apple TV titled “A Great Improvisation:  Franklin, France, and the Birth of America” by Stacy Schiff.  The quai de Porte St. Louis parking area, currently closed to traffic and under construction will be used in the film.

At noon, it still hadn’t started to rain.

SANDY BUYING SOME THAI FOOD IN THE ROCABEY MARCHÉ

FRIDAY-2nd Sandy shopped at our local marché this morning and learned there won’t be any more green beans.  Good thing we enjoyed them earlier in the week.

On a short walk to the harbor at high tide this morning, we walked by the quai where the Franklin movie will be filmed.  Workers were unloading fake stone walls to be used as scenery.  There was a more detailed article in the newspaper today about the movie.  The filming will begin Sept. 13th.  The Manoir of Jacques Cartier will also be used.  Two of the French actors will like from the series “Dix Per Cent”, will also be included.

US ON THE MOLE WITH SAINT-MALO IN THE BACKGROUND
US ON THE MOLE WITH SAINT-MALO IN THE BACKGROUND
MICHAEL DOUGLAS TO BE IN SAINT-MALO FOR THE FRANKLIN SERIES
SCENERY FOR THE FRANKLIN APPLE TV SERIES
A CARGO SHIP ENTERING THE LOCK
THIS BOAT FROM A HOTEL IN DINARD, ACROSS THE HARBOR, BROUGHT SOME GUESTS TO SAINT-MALO
AN EMPTY BEACH THIS MORNING

SATURDAY-3rd We decided to walk on the Bas Sablons and have lunch at the Ponton restaurant, where earlier we’ve enjoyed a beverage and croissant.  Since school started this week there are a lot less tourists.  We did not make a reservation.  We were given a choice of a table inside or on the terrace, but in the bar area which did not have a shade.  We chose the terrace since it was a cloudy day, around 21°C (70°F) degrees. We enjoyed a cheeseburger and fries, very large in size with an Orangina to drink.  Good thing we had a long walk back home (65 minutes round trip) because we were stuffed!

We did get a good look at a cormorant that was resting by the basin Vauban which is very close to our apartment. This is the closest we have ever been to a cormorant.

A MAGPIE IN A FIELD
A CORMORANT IN THE BAS SABLONS HARBOR
A CORMORANT IN THE BASIN VAUBAN
A CORMORANT IN THE BASIN VAUBAN
A CORMORANT IN THE BASIN VAUBAN
A CORMORANT IN THE BASIN VAUBAN
A CORMORANT IN THE BASIN VAUBAN

SUNDAY-4th Fairly quiet this morning compared to the half marathon race last Sunday.  Walked a little on the digue.  Breezy in places, humid, high of 24°C (75°F) today.  We started organizing items to go back to the U.S., things to recycle here or throw away.  Straightened out some drawers, mentally began the count down of days and things left to accomplish.

VERY CALM OCEAN THIS MORNING

Now that you have made it this far you have a choice on how to continue. Below is an album of photos from this week titled 2022-09-04 week album. There are two ways you can view the photos.

The first way is to click on the title area of the album. So click on the 2022-09-04 week album and the album will open in FLICKR.

The other way is to click on the right >arrow in the area below. Clicking on the arrow will show the next photo in the album.

2022-09-04 week album
2022-09-04 week album
35 photos
  • Monday morning walk on the digue
    Monday morning walk on the digue
  • Monday morning walk on the digue
    Monday morning walk on the digue
  • Monday morning walk on the digue
    Monday morning walk on the digue
  • Monday morning walk on the digue
    Monday morning walk on the digue
  • Monday morning walk on the digue
    Monday morning walk on the digue
  • Monday morning walk on the digue
    Monday morning walk on the digue
  • Monday morning walk on the digue
    Monday morning walk on the digue
  • Monday morning walk on the digue
    Monday morning walk on the digue
  • Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor
    Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor
  • Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor
    Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor
  • Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor
    Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor
  • Wednesday morning walk on the mole
    Wednesday morning walk on the mole
  • Wednesday morning walk on the mole
    Wednesday morning walk on the mole
  • Wednesday morning walk on the mole
    Wednesday morning walk on the mole
  • Thursday morning walk to the marché at Rocabey, Sandy in the marché
    Thursday morning walk to the marché at Rocabey, Sandy in the marché
  • Thursday morning walk to the marché at Rocabey, Sandy in the marché
    Thursday morning walk to the marché at Rocabey, Sandy in the marché
  • Friday morning walk on the mole
    Friday morning walk on the mole
  • Friday morning walk on the mole
    Friday morning walk on the mole
  • Friday morning walk on the mole
    Friday morning walk on the mole
  • Friday morning walk on the mole
    Friday morning walk on the mole
  • Friday morning walk on the mole
    Friday morning walk on the mole
  • Friday morning walk on the mole
    Friday morning walk on the mole
  • Friday morning walk on the mole
    Friday morning walk on the mole
  • Friday morning walk on the mole
    Friday morning walk on the mole
  • Friday morning walk on the mole
    Friday morning walk on the mole
  • Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
    Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
  • Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
    Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
  • Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
    Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
  • Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
    Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
  • Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
    Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
  • Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
    Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
  • Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
    Saturday morning walk to Bas Sablons for lunch
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That is all for this week in Saint-Malo. Au revoir.

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the week ending August 25, 2019 – la semaine se terminant le 25 août 2019

26 Monday Aug 2019

Posted by philipdenotto in 2019-France

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balsamic vinegar pearls, beirut lebanon, bubble guy, Christine, cormorant, courtoisville, digue, esplanade saint-vincent, gulls, hope college, intermarche, kite surfer, kite-sufers, monsieur alix, plage des bas-sablons, plage du mole, restaurant, sea cloud ii

lundi 19 août 2019 – Monday August 19, 2019

The lady below us and her son arrived yesterday from Toulouse in southern France. She is probably close to 90 years old and he is in his 50’s. They keep pretty much to themselves. They arrive sometime between the first and middle of August and generally stay one month.

A comment Sandy has been forgetting is an item that is included on our salads at the restaurant B’ Art a Thè. The object appears to be the size and shape of a clear “Vitamin E” type gel cap but is full of balsamic vinaigrette. It is delicious! Wonder if we can find them in the US?

  • balsamic vinegar pearls

This morning we wanted to go to the Intermarche in Rocabey.We boarded the bus and wanted to get off at the first stop. We pressed the bell, the sign lit up showing a stop was requested. Sandy stood up, the man next to her also stood up and walked to the door. The driver drove past the stop. We called out “madame the stop please” in French and she kept driving. Another passenger said in English, you have to press the button. Sandy answered that she had, pointed to the red light, and finally the driver stopped at the next stop. The other passenger muttered to himself as we exited the bus. Apparently the driver was not having a good morning.

We were on our way to the Intermarche to look for packing tape. We found it in the hardware section with the adhesives.

We decided to walk home from the Intermarche and saw a lot of gulls on the basin.

  • GULLS on the basin
  • GULLS on the basin
  • GULLS on the basin

Later in the morning we packaged our two new watercolor paintings inside the tube, Christine gave us. We sealed it up with our new packing tape, and went to the post office. The lady who runs the post is always polite and patient when we mail items.

After lunch, the boules game was on and we were greeted by 6 players. It was almost too cool in the shady court, but the players didn’t have much choice. The sunny court was still quite wet from the recent rain while the shady court was dry.

There was an interesting ship moored in the basin: Sea Cloud II. We think this is the second time for it to be here this summer.

  • Civil ensign of Malta, not the official state flag
  • SEA CLOUD II from Malta
  • SEA CLOUD II from Malta

Lovely sunny day today.

mardi 20 août 2019 – Tuesday, August 20, 2019

At the market this morning, Sandy asked for 6 stems of small roses. The lady florist must think we’re frequent shoppers as she gave us 8 but only charged for five and a half. That was a nice discount and the flowers look great. Unfortunately, it’s our last bouquet here of the year.

After we shopped at the marché we took a walk through Saint-Servan and the Plage des Bas Sablons. It was high tide, although it was a low high tide, and the beach was very pretty and quite a few people were on the beach.

  • Plage des Bas Sablons
  • Plage des Bas Sablons

Another lovely sunny day.

mercredi 21 août 2019 – Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Sandy commented about less tourists being around this week, at least Intra-Muros section of Saint-Malo.

We walked to the Carrefour at Courtoisville, did our little bit of shopping, and then walked home on the digue. It was high tide and the waves were great to watch and listen to. It was sunny and bright. However, Sandy decided she was incorrect on the tourists. There were so many people, bicycles, scooters, strollers, joggers, that it was difficult to walk.

  • People enjoying the waves
  • pretty sails on the ocean
  • sailboats and small cabin cruisers
  • sail surfers in tow back to the beach

All of the parking lots we passed were full and there were lines of cars waiting to enter. Ugh!

We walked through the Esplanade Saint-Vincent and saw Bubble Guy! He is in the picture below with a purple shirt and white pants. The kids and adults love his act.

  • Bubble Guy was here and Sandy had just added to his take for the day.

In the afternoon we spent some time watching the boules game and then we went to the harbor.

  • Corsaire Ferries passing in the harbor
  • Corsair Ferries leaving the ramp

jeudi 22 août 2019 – Thursday, August 22, 2019

Sunny again, but cool, only 14C (58F).

Sandy spent two hours with her tutor Christine for the last time this year. Christine and her husband are taking off for two weeks at a friends home in southern Spain.

Phil purchased new interior door handles for our inside doors. The current handles were here when we purchased our apartment. Antique looking, brassy/gold in color and not always working correctly. The light fixtures and handles on our french doors are silvery/satin in color in a newer style. Phil was able to purchase enough to change all of the interior doors. They will look modern and in sync with the rest of the apartment.

We talked to Alain at the boules game in the afternoon. He told us Denise and Gilles, in Paris, are doing well. A beautiful, sunny, warm afternoon.

After talking with Alain we went to the harbor. We saw this great looking sailboat in the distance.

  • Love the sail on this boat.
    Love the sail on this boat.

Sandy spotted 3 cormorants in the harbor. They are awfully difficult to photograph because they spend a lot of time under water getting their food. When they surface they spend only a few seconds on surface and then they dive underwater. Since you never know where it is going to surface next it is difficult getting a good picture of the cormorant. Phil had been trying for about 4 years and had only succeeded in getting distant photos. But today Phil got lucky. He snapped off about 12 shots very quickly and got a great shot of a cormorant.

  • Cormorant swimming in the harbor.

vendredi 23 août 2019 – Friday, August 23, 2019

Sandy purchased a piece of watermelon, and other fresh fruit at the market. Monsieur Alix, his son, and lady assistant greeted us even though they didn’t wait on us. Always pleasant to see a smiling, friendly face.

We walked to Intermarche to pick up the last few needed items and walked home along the digue. We occasionally hear a jet or plane, but not often. We looked up, above the beach, to see the French equivalent of the Blue Angels flying in formation and spewing blue, white, and red smoke. We waited a few minutes and they passed again. Interesting!!

  • French military jets with a blue, white and red smoke trail

Interesting at the boules game today. Alain wasn’t there, which we knew, but another lady we’d watched all summer came and shook our hands and said bonjour. Probably if we were here another month we’d be on “bise,” kiss on both cheeks, terms.

Our son Michael is an assistant professor and librarian at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. A photo of him while presenting to a class has been added to the library web site. So he sent us a screen capture of the web site with his picture. Very nice to see.

  • Michael on the Hope College library web site.

samedi 24 août 2019 – Saturday, August 24, 2019

The forecast for today is hot with a high of 30C (86F). Absolutely too hot!

However the water temperature st the beach was absolutely cold! The temperature in the water was 19C (64F) and super cold. It took quite awhile of continually moving around in the water before Sandy was numb enough not to feel the cold.

  • Sandy does not always do well in cold water. Here the temperature is 19C (66F).

On our way back, we met our neighbors that live in Versailles, France and own the apartment on the top floor of our building. They just returned from a trip to Beirut, Lebanon and said the ocean temperature there was 29C (84F). They invited us for an aperitif at noon on Sunday to see all of the remodeling they had completed earlier this spring and summer.

dimanche 18 août 2019 – Sunday, August 18, 2019

At noon we went up to our neighbors apartment on 5th floor (6th floor in the USA) for an aperitif. They are on the top floor of the apartment building. Natale and Nicolas were there with their son Corentin. They were spending just a couple of days here to take a look at the remodeling work they were having done on the attic apartment which is above their apartment. They had purchased the attic and were remodeling it so their children Corentin and his sister Gwenaëlle could use it as their own vacation spot. The remodeling was coming along very nicely and looked great. Gwenaëlle was not with her family because she is spending the college semester in Beirut, Lebanon.

We spent a good amount of time discussing family matters, world affairs and just about anything else you could think of. We really enjoyed the tuna dip and the lobster dip. Phil got to try a new drink which Nicolas mixed. Unfortunately Phil cannot remember the name of the drink, but it was a potent drink.

We had a great late afternoon dinner at the B’Art à Thé restaurant. This was probably our 6th time at the restaurant and every meal had been delicious.

  • Phil’s flank steak, potatoes, and salad.
  • Sandy’s bruschetta, with chicken and salad.

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