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April 24 in Saint-Malo – 24 avril à Saint-Malo

24 Sunday Apr 2016

Posted by philipdenotto in avril poster 2016 - April 2016 post

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barge, carrefour hypermarche, conforama, darty, ecluse, La Madeleine Center, little sisters of the poor, lock, vide-grenier

It is Sunday April 24, two days after our journey to Rennes, but we still seem to be in recovery mode.  A nice short walk to a vide-grenier / garage sale will be just fine.

Sunday April 24, 2016 is cool and cloudy.  The predicted high temperature is 10 C / 50 F.  We planned to walk to a vide-grenier / garage sale in Saint-Servan this morning.  The sale is being held by the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Just before we left for Saint-Servan, we discovered that our glass coffee carafe was broken.  Sandy had washed it and didn’t notice a missing section from the side.  She had to drain the water from the sink to find the broken piece.  So that’s the first item we wanted to buy today if possible.

It was quite windy as we walked across the bridge over the ecluse/lock.  We noticed a tug boat pushing a barge coming towards the lock/ecluse.  The barge had just been emptied from the dredging going on in the harbor.  We hurried over the bridge just before the warning alarm sounded prior to the bridge being closed to allow boats to go into the lock.

barge and tug
barge and tug
tug pushing the barge
tug pushing the barge

We decided to take a slightly different path on the way to the vide-grenier and passed the same church three different times.  Sandy thought she knew the location for the sale, but apparently not. Finally, using her iPhone we found it.  The whole time we were looking we were within a 5 minute walk.  It was on a street we’d never been on before.

There were many large wooden ancient armoires for sale for 25€, lots of books, household items and many new items of clothing.  Sandy found a Krups brand hand mixer.  Phil asked one of the Sisters if the mixer worked and then had a short conversation with her.  She asked if we were American and told us they had “orders” in several USA cities.  She was a member of the Little Sisters of the Poor and they had branches in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Newark and several other cities on the east coast.   She was originally from England, but had lived in France for the last 50 years.  The mixer worked and included “dough” beaters and regular beaters.  Phil found a fleece pull over, fleece hat and scarf, all brand new.  The price for all four items was 10€. No luck on finding a replacement coffee carafe, so we’ll have to shop for a new one tomorrow.

On the way back to our apartment it rained.  So we arrived slightly damp and had to dry everything out for about the 5th time this year.  We were exhausted and Phil discovered that we’d walked over 8.9 km / 5.5 mi today and been gone for 2 and 1/2 hours. To see a map of the walk we took today, click on this link.

The rain we had experienced earlier was the result of a front passing through.  After the front passed through, the weather stayed cool, but there was sunshine all afternoon.

At around 15:30 / 3:30 PM we enjoyed the tomato farcie we had purchased at the butcher yesterday.  With it we had salad and couscous.  Very, very good.

For the rest of the afternoon we searched online for a replacement glass coffee carafe.  We think the Carrefour Hypermarche, the Conforama, or the Darty store at the La Madeleine Center will have a replacement. We’ll find out tomorrow morning.

We heard a soft knock at the door and its was Madame Lavogez from the 5th floor (6th floor USA) inviting us for an aperitif at her apartment tomorrow evening.  Looking forward to that!

 

 

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April 17 in Saint-Malo – 17 avril à Saint-Malo

17 Sunday Apr 2016

Posted by philipdenotto in avril poster 2016 - April 2016 post

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amber trader, ecluse, finland, Grand Passerelle, lock, romania, Saint-Malo

Sunday April 17, 2017 was a “sleep late” day for us. Sandy didn’t make it up until almost 9 am which is very late for her.

Sandy got a croissant and baguette for breakfast.  Then we worked on homework until close to 14:00.  It was a beautiful bright sunny day but cool.  The wind was blowing off the ocean and the high temperature for the day reached 10 C or 50 F.

On our way to a photo exposition, we took a walk through the parking area by the Vauban basin.  As we walked through a parking lot we usually look at the license plates.  The French license plates even though they are all basically the same design and colors have information on them that tells you which department the car is registered.  French departments are slightly similar to states in the USA. The really interesting plates are those from other countries.  Today we spotted two out of country license plates. First we spotted a license plate from Finland (FIN).  Helsinki the capitol of Finland is 2746 km (1706 mi) from Saint-Malo.  The other license plate we spotted was from Romania (RO).  Bucharest the capitol of Romania is 2709 km (1683 mi) from Saint-Malo.  Somebody drove a long ways.

ROMANIA
ROMANIA
FINLAND
FINLAND

We walked to the Grand Passerelle for the photographic exposition.  The Grand Passerelle  is across from the Gare/train station.  Its official name is “la Médiathèque La Grande Passerelle de Saint-Malo.” It is a multimedia library, with 6-8 movie theaters, and exhibition rooms inside.  It is a modernistic, large, nice looking building.  We wanted to see the exhibition of photographs called “Belle Epaque” showing Saint-Malo in it’s “heyday”.  The photographs were from around the early 1900’s.  Horses, mules, and  wagons were being used to help the fishermen with their nets.  Many buildings looked the same then as they do today and we found the exhibit very interesting.  It was also free!

On our walk back towards the Intra-Muros we could hear a band playing.  There were about 24 brass musicians entertaining a large crowd just outside the tourism office.

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mystery band on the esplanade Saint-Vincent 

After listening to them for a few minutes we walked towards the harbor to see if we could spot any of the returning sailboats from the regatta yesterday.

Before we reached the harbor we spotted a very large ship in the lock/ecluse.  We watched the tanker named “Amber Trader” (pictures below) come out of the lock/ecluse and make a complete 360 degree turn.  It was docking across from the exit of the lock/ecluse in preparation to load up tomorrow.  It was VERY high in the water and had to be empty.

Amber Trader
Amber Trader
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We finally made it to the harbor and sat on a bench for a few minutes.  We saw the Corsaire Ferry arrive, depart and watched people come and go.  The sun was very warm.  We did not see any of the sailboats from the Regatta.

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