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April 29 in Saint-Malo – 29 avril à Saint-Malo

29 Friday Apr 2016

Posted by philipdenotto in avril poster 2016 - April 2016 post

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Au Panier d'Italie, dredging vessel, ferme les aubriais, harbor, Intra-Muros, La Fournee Malouine, librairie pages et images, marché, Saint-Malo, Saint-Servan

Saturday April 29 is going to be a mixed weather day.  The morning is to be nice, but cool.  The afternoon is supposed to have rain.  Even though we have 7 errands on our list for today, they are small and will be done in the morning.

ERRAND 1. Sandy did an early morning visit to the Intra-Muros marche.  She purchased some salad, apples, strawberries, tomatoes and pears.  She did see our 5th floor neighbor Jean in the marche.  He was talking with one of the other vendors.

The day starts with a walk out of Porte Saint-Louis and then on to Saint-Servan.  As we went through Port Saint-Louis we saw a ship which was new to us in the basin Vauban.  It was the British sailing ship Lord Nelson.  Phil took a few pictures of this nice looking sailing ship.

Lord Nelson
Lord Nelson
Long Nelson
Long Nelson
Lord Nelson
Lord Nelson

ERRAND 2 AND 3. The walk to Saint-Servan was quite nice but windy.  We had to make a stop at the Librairie Pages et Images, which is a bookstore, not a library.  Our internet service provider Free Telecom had delivered a package for us to the bookstore.  After picking up the package, we headed to the Au Panier d’Italie which is a small Italian take out place in Saint-Servan.  We purchased some lasagna bolognese, some courgettes au gratin, and a small pizza.  We will have the pizza on Saturday.  The lasagna and au gratin will be for the main meal on Sunday.

ERRAND 4 and 5. We then headed to the marche which is Saint-Servan on Saturdays.  We walked around the outdoor market and then entered the indoor market.  Sandy purchased a pineapple.  She had meant to buy one at the Intra-Muros marche earlier in the day but had forgotten.  In the mean time, Phil waited in the Ferme les Aubriais butcher line.  Ground beef was the purchase there.  Half of the meat will be used to make some chili later today.  The rest will be used on Saturday to make Italian meatballs.

On the way back from Saint-Servan we stopped at the harbor.  The dredging vessel and the barge had moved again.  Now they were closer to the west end of harbor, not far from where we were sitting.

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Dredging vessel and barge

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Dredging vessel and barge

ERRAND 6. On the way back from the harbor Sandy went into the La Fournee Malouine boulangerie (bakery) for a baguette.  In the boulangerie she saw the father of Natalie our neighbor on the 6th floor.  She had a nice short talk with him.  As he left the boulangerie he stopped and talked with Phil about the boulangerie and the lady who ran the shop.  He had to hurry off because he was driving Natalie and children to the gare / train station to get the TGV back to Paris.  It was very nice to see him.

ERRAND 7. Sandy headed back to the apartment and Phil went to buy the newspapers.  A Le Figaro and Ouest France were today’s choices.

Today we walked 6.14 kilometers / 3.8 miles with no bus rides.

Right after lunch we started the chili making process.  It was done after a couple of hours of simmering.

Doing our French homework also occupied a good part of our afternoon.

A light rain started mid-afternoon and continued into the evening.

 

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April 4 in Saint-Malo – 4 avril à Saint-Malo

04 Monday Apr 2016

Posted by philipdenotto in avril poster 2016 - April 2016 post

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carrefour city, dredger, dredging vessel, harbor, Intra-Muros, La Fournee Malouine, ofii, rennes, Saint-Malo

Today is Monday April 4 and we don’t have a schedule for today.

dredger

dredger

We are going to start out by taking a walk.  First we stopped at the harbor.  There is a dredging vessel in the harbor today.  It is dredging the harbor to allow the fishing

boats to anchor in the harbor, rather than having to anchor in the basin.  Avoiding the basin means they do not have to go through the lock / ecluse which give them more flexibility for their schedule.

After the harbor we climbed the stairs to the top of the ramparts.  We started at the south end of the ramparts and walked toward

little red sails

little red sails

the north.  On our way we saw a group of sailing students get started for with their lesson.  There were about 10 small boats which were being pulled out into the shallow water near the shore.  After a while we saw that the students had raised the little red sails on their tiny boats and were sailing around.

We walked to the castle on the north end of the ramparts and then headed into the city.  Sandy needed to buy a few things at the Carrefour City in the Intra-Muros.

After Carrefour we head back to the apartment.  The walk had been 3.93 km or 2.44 mi.  A good start to the day.

Sandy did a bunch of cleaning around the house.  Phil spent a lot of time catching up on scanning the documents and memorabilia we had collected over the last few weeks.

In the afternoon we both received emails from the OFII people in Rennes.  They are the French VISA (not the credit card) people. We know they would be contacting us. We are scheduled for a physical examination and a review of our documents on April 22 at the OFII office in Rennes.  This is part of our request to stay longer than 6 months.  Translating the emails and the attached documents took a good bit of time this afternoon.  The good news is that we believe we have all the information they have requested.

We did go by thP1010980e La Fournee Malouine boulangerie and took a picture of the exterior.  Sandy has been trying to get Trip Advisor to reclassify the place from a restaurant to a boulangerie.  It is not a restaurant at all.  Being incorrectly classified may keep people for going there so we want to get it corrected.

 

All our pictures for April in Saint-Malo France can be viewed at 2016-04 April in Saint-Malo on Flickr.  They will open in a separate window.

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.

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