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April 19 in Saint-Malo – 19 avril à Saint-Malo

19 Tuesday Apr 2016

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boules, carrefour city, dentist, esplanade saint-vincent, france, gomina coiffure, haircuts, hiroshi kitada, kiho, new york, plymouth england, rennes, Saint-Malo, scnf

Tuesday April 19 is another very sunny day, but today it is getting quite a bit warmer in the afternoon.  Haircuts, French lessons and a visit to the dentist are on the agenda.

Our 9:00 AM haircut appointments have us up and going early.  This is our second visit to this haircut shop this year.  We went quite a few times in 2014 with good results.  The same thing applies this year.  We get really good haircuts and they are consistent, which is important.  The name of the shop is GOMINA Coiffure .

We left the haircut shop at 9:30, just a little behind our normal schedule.  So we hurried to the esplanade Saint-Vincent to get the bus on our way to our French lesson.  We just made it to the bus, mainly because the woman bus driver was nice enough to wait for us.  We changed buses at the gare and got to our tutor Christine’s house at 1 minute to 10.

Christine had her dining room table back in place after having it repaired last week.  So the French lesson was a success.  Sandy had to do a lot of speaking today and she is getting better every week.

We left Christine’s hours at 11:55 and caught our bus at 12:05 as planned.  When we got to the gare / train station, we went to the SCNF ticket counter to buy our tickets for our Friday trip to Rennes.

We got back to the apartment around 12:45 and had a nice lunch.  Phil had a ham sandwich and Sandy had soup due to her tooth problem.

At 14:00 Phil went up to the 4th floor to visit with our neighbor Jean.  In the mean time Sandy worked on writing her thoughts for her visit to the dentist.  She wrote the thoughts out in French so she could share them with the dentist.  There is no guarantee he/she knows any English and Phil’s French will only get her so far. Sandy also took a quick trip to the Carrefour city to buy a couple of items.

A couple of minutes after her return, we got a phone call from the dentist’s office asking if we could get to the office as quickly as possible.  They must have had a cancellation.  We tried hard to get there as quickly as possible, but we missed our bus at the esplanade Saint-Vincent and lost about 15 minutes.  We took our bus as planned, but we knew we had to walk for about 8 minutes to the dentist’s office.  Unfortunately we missed the office and walked past it.  Phil saw a man sitting on his front porch and asked the man for directions.  He pointed us in the right direction.  Merci monsieur!

The dentist’s office was pretty much a normal office.  The assistant who took our appointment call yesterday greeted us and Phil thanked her for being so helpful in setting up the appointment.  We waited in the waiting room for about 5 minutes, then the dentist came to get us and take us to his office.

The dentist’s office has 3 dentists and 2 dental assistants.  In our previous dentist’s office in Springfield Illinois, there was 1 dentist and 4 assistants.

Sandy gave her written thoughts to the dentist. He read them and then escorted her to the dental chair which was in his office.  He took a look at her broken tooth and gave his diagnosis.  He did not think the tooth needed a crown.  Rather he suggested using a resin like material to repair the remaining part of the tooth.  That was great with Sandy.  He suggested doing it right then and Sandy gave her okay.

About 40 minutes later we walked out of the dentist’s office with Sandy having a newly repaired tooth.  Things could not have worked out better for her.  At a later date we’ll write-up a blog entry to discuss our dentist and doctor appointments, how we set them up, how much they cost, and our take on medical issues in France.

On our way back to the apartment we walked past the basin Vauban.  They are setting up for a sail boat race between Plymouth, England and Saint-Malo.  It is a preliminary warm up race.  The real race will be between Plymouth and New York.  There are some racing boats in the basin and more to come tomorrow.  Quite a few marques are being set up to

the race poster
the race poster
setting up the marques
setting up the marques

provide entertainment for people coming to take a look at the boats.

One of the boats is captained by a man from Japan.  He is the first Japanese sailor to participate in the race.  His name is Hiroshi Kitada and his boat is called the KIHO.

Hiroshi Kitada's ship Kiho
Hiroshi Kitada’s ship Kiho
Hiroshi Kitada's ship Kiho
Hiroshi Kitada’s ship Kiho

We then resumed our walk back to the apartment.  On the way we passed the boules courts by the wall.  The group responsible for the boules courts had worked on the courts to get them ready for the summer.  The courts had new gravel on them and they looked good.  The group was playing boules, trying out the newly refurbished courts.

Playing boules
Playing boules
Boules group warning
Boules group warning

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April 18 in Saint-Malo – 18 avril à Saint-Malo

18 Monday Apr 2016

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carrefour hypermarche, conforama, dentist, france, ofii, rennes

Monday April 18 is a cool but very sunny day in Saint-Malo.  It was also a morning of teeth and phone calls.

Today’s blog actually started yesterday evening after dinner.  While Sandy was dental flossing, she felt a tooth break.  Previously she had problems with two teeth which had fillings and this was the same case.  A tooth with a filling had broken in two.  She was not in any pain, but it prevented her from chewing food on that side and it just felt funny.  Sandy immediately sent an email to our tutor Christine explaining the situation and asking her for the name of her dentist.  Christine replied quickly with the name of her dentist, so at that point all we could do is wait until Monday morning to call for an appointment.

Monday morning Sandy was not in a great mood.  The broken tooth bothered her, but it was the prospect of going to the dentist which made her most unhappy.  Not too many people like to go to the dentist.  Phil called the dentist for an appointment and we were lucky enough to get an appointment for 17:00 / 5 PM on Tuesday.

Sandy then had to call her dental insurance company to explain the situation and ask them how to go about getting coverage while out of the USA.  We will have to cover the costs ourselves and then submit the bills to the insurance company.

The next thing we had to do was to figure out where the dentist was located and then decide which bus would get us there.  That took a while, but we will be able to get a bus to within a couple of blocks of the dentist and then walk.

The next thing was to head out to Conforama to shop for some smalls rugs for the entry way.  Conforama is a store for furniture, appliances, lighting and rugs.  We have purchased rugs and lighting from them in the past.  We found the small rugs we wanted and purchased them for 9€.

We then crossed the street to shop at the Carrefour hypermarche.  There we purchased some potting soil, cranberry juice, napkins and yogurt.

On the trip back we got lucky and caught a number 1 bus as soon as we walked to the bus stop.

For lunch Sandy had soup and fruit.  She successfully avoided aggravating her broken tooth.  Phil got a ham sandwich on crusty bread!

The afternoon was spent making sure we had the correct paper work for our trip to the government VISA people in Rennes on Friday.  We seem to have everything we need.  The next task was to figure out how we were going to get there.  We will take a bus, then a train and then walk the last 10 minutes to the office.  That took a bit of doing because it ended up that the main train station was not the best station for us to go to.  Instead we will get off about two stops before the main station and just have the short 10 minute walk.  Not bad!

We did not get to take any pictures today, but I will borrow a picture from the Saint-Malo tourism site.  There is a sailing race coming up between Plymouth, England and New York, USA.  As a preliminary to the real race, the competitors are having a race between Plymouth and Saint-Malo.  There will be a lot of very large sailing ships in the harbor in the next week.

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