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the week ending Sunday July 24, 2022 – la semaine se terminant le dimanche 24 juillet 2022

25 Monday Jul 2022

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MONDAY-18th a hot day, an all time record was set in Saint-Malo 40.8°C (105.4°F). Walked to the plage du Bon Secours to cool off in the ice cold water. This beach is the closest to our apartment. It is just a hundred steps or so from the apartment; 350 meters, 382 yards, 1148 feet

Our walking route from the apartment, follow the blue dots from the right (4 Rue de la Coudre) to the left (Porte Saint Pierre). 4 minutes is about right.
View out to sea from in the water.
View of the beach area from in the water.
Yes, it is us in the water!
At the Plage de Bon Secours for bathing and cooling.

TUESDAY-19th Sandy went to the marché early and on the way back she met our friend Madame Yvonne. She is in her 80s and comes to Saint-Malo each year for the months of May through September. She lives in Rennes.

We tried some Sophie training this morning, but were not overly successful.

Sandy and Sophie on the balcony.
Sandy and her geraniums.
Morning training exercise for Sophie on the balcony with our lovely geraniums.

Still hot in the morning, 29, but this afternoon should be a cool off. We took a late afternoon walk down to the harbor and then out on the mole. We saw Madame Yvonne sitting on a bench in the shade talking with a friend. We said hello, she laughed and we continued on our walk to the mole.

Plage du Mole viewed from the mole.
Hebridean Princess from Glasgow Scotland in the basin.
Afternoon walk to the harbor and the mole.

Sandy invited Gwenaëlle and Corentin, from the top floor of the apartment building, to have an aperitif with us Saturday evening. They are children of the owners of the top floor apartment, Nicolas and Nathalie. Gwenaëlle and Corentin are university students working here for their summer jobs.

WEDNESDAY-20th and we did our usual Tuesday shopping today instead. Watched the Tour de France stage today. Went for a walk to the harbor and on the mole. A cruise ship was in the harbor.

Spanish ship Nao Victoria in the basin
Plage du mole.
Cruise ship HAMBURG in anchored in the harbor.
Afternoon walk to the harbor and the mole.

THURSDAY-21st we got an early start on our walk to the Rocabey marché. We purchased some pork for Sunday, and some cheese and olives for Saturday evening. Saturday evening Gwenaëlle and Corentin will be coming to our apartment at 18:30 for an aperitif.

On the way home we met our friend Jean-Yves and Fripouille his dog walking along the quay Dougay-Trouin.

Afternoon walk to the harbor. Saw the cormorant and a lot of people. Stopped at the wine shop on the way back.

Cormorant swimming in the harbor.
Cormorant diving under water in the harbor.
Sea gull taking it easy in the harbor.
Pretty garden on the round-about.
Sandy’s wine shop.
Walk to the harbor and on the mole.

FRIDAY-22nd and we did some aperitif shopping at the Intermarché Super. This is to prepare for the visit tomorrow of Gwenaëlle and Corentin for an aperitif. Met our friend Eliane while crossing through the parking lot on the way back to the apartment.

Stopped by the boules court in the afternoon, said hello to our friends, Philippe, Guy, and Jean-Yves. Then we went to the harbor.

Fishing boat coming in to unload mussels.
Shangaïé is the name of the boat.
Bag of mussels on the scale.
Logo for the company buying the mussels.
Fishing boat bringing mussels to the buyer.

Stopped at the Carrefour City for some Kronenbourg 1664 beer on the way back to the apartment.

SATURDAY-23rd and we had only one thing to do this morning; pick up our Nespresso coffee package at the post office. Must not run out of coffee.

Gwenaëlle and Corentin were here for an aperitif this evening. Sandy had some great finger food for everyone to nibble on. We had a great time talking with Gwenaëlle and Corentin about all sort of things. It was good French language practice for us and good English practice for them. At the end, there was no food left, just a good indicator of a successful evening.

SUNDAY-24th was a slow day. We took a short walk in the morning and decided it was a bit too warm, so we returned to the apartment. For dinner we had the pork brochettes we bought Thursday at the butcher.

A couple of new license plates we noticed this week; Lithuania and Denmark.

Lithuania license plate
Denmark license plate

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 2022-07-24 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 2022-07-24 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.

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    Monday late morning at the beach
  • Tuesday morning training Sophie
    Tuesday morning training Sophie
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    Tuesday morning training Sophie
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    Tuesday morning training Sophie
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    Tuesday morning training Sophie
  • Tuesday morning training Sophie
    Tuesday morning training Sophie
  • Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor and the mole
    Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor and the mole
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    Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor and the mole
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    Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor and the mole
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    Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor and the mole
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    Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor and the mole
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    Wednesday afternoon walk to the harbor
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    Wednesday afternoon walk to the harbor
  • Thursday morning walk to Rocabey marché
    Thursday morning walk to Rocabey marché
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    Thursday afternoon walk to the harbor
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    Thursday afternoon walk to the harbor
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    Thursday afternoon walk to the harbor
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    Thursday afternoon walk to the harbor
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    Thursday afternoon walk to the harbor
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    Thursday afternoon walk to the harbor
  • Sandy's wine shop - Cave Abbaye Saint Jean
    Sandy’s wine shop – Cave Abbaye Saint Jean
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    Sandy’s wine shop – Cave Abbaye Saint Jean
  • Sandy's wine shop - Cave Abbaye Saint Jean
    Sandy’s wine shop – Cave Abbaye Saint Jean
  • Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
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    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
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    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
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    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
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    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
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    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
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    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
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    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
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    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
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    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
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    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
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    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole
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    Friday afternoon walk to the harbor and to the mole

That is all for this week in Saint-Malo. Au revoir.

the week ending July 14, 2019 – la semaine se terminant le 14 juillet 2019

15 Monday Jul 2019

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A lot of pictures this week! And a couple of videos.

lundi 8 juillet 2019 – Monday July 8, 2019

Today at breakfast Sandy was reading an online story in the local French paper, Ouest-France (West-France), about a dolphin sighting. Yesterday, just off the salt water swimming pool and beach, a pod of 20 dolphins was spotted. That must have been some sight!

We shopped at the large Carrefour hypermarché to replace our bathroom scale and pick up a few items. July is one of the two months when sales are held all over France. There were many discounted shelves and bins to look at.

We took a late afternoon walk on the beach Plage du Sillon. I got really lucky getting the 3 photos in the gallery below. The gull played it perfectly. It looked right. It looked left. Then it took off! Perfect.

  • Get Ready!
  • Get Set!
  • GO!

On our way back we wanted to look at another beach, Plage de Bon Secours, where the swimming pool is located. Apparently we had forgotten the direct path to take and wandered around through small pathways before we reached our destination. Since it was low tide, (the pool is filled when high tide comes in) the sides of the pool were easily visible. Beautiful day with the air temperature of 23C (74F). But with a water temperature of 17C (62F). The water is too cool for us!

  • queuing up at the diving platform
  • the splash after a dive
  • diving @ swimming pool – white circle
  • diving @ swimming pool – white circle
  • diving @ swimming pool – white circle
  • Plage de Bon Secours
  • Plage de Bon Secours and the salt water swimming pool

mardi 9 juillet 2019 – Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Sandy’s feet were a little tender after walking 11 kilometers yesterday.

After picking up strawberries, flat peaches, cherries, lettuce, green beans, and brown mushrooms from our local marché we stopped at the florist stand. Three years ago was the last year the florist had a permanent store at the corner of our street. Since then, she and her husband are “pre-retired” and are selling flowers just at the marché. She is at our local Intra-Muros marché and her husband is at the Saint-Servan marché. Today she had Alstroemeria flowers, a favorite of ours, and we bought a bouquet of 6 pieces.

  • Intra-Muros marché
  • Intra-Muros marché

Next we stopped at the Hôtel de Ville, city hall, to talk to the lady at the reception office. She listened to our plea about parking posts last week. We wrote a thank you note to her and asked her to pass the note on to the officials. She seemed genuinely pleased to be thanked for her part. The work in front of our building is complete and only one post is still missing behind our building. A week is really a quick response here.

Today we noticed a large cruise ship anchored in the harbor. We get four or five of these ships each summer. They are too large to go through the lock (écluse) into the basin, so they anchor in the middle of the bay. Tenders are used to shuttle passengers from and to the ship. There was even roof top seating on the tender boats. This ship is “The World.”

  • tender returning to THE WORLD
  • THE WORLD
  • THE WORLD cruise ship

The World is a private residential community-at-sea. There are only 165 individual homes on the ship. Yes, you read that correctly, 165 individual homes on the ship. You can read more about The World by clicking this link.

Sandy found the following information about The World on the internet.

  • largest private residential yacht in the world
  • on-board apartments
  • only 165 residences
  • priced from $2 to $20 million
  • studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments
  • a six-bedroom penthouse suite
  • annual maintenance fees which can range from $60,000 to $270,000
  • owners get to help choose the destinations
  • approximately 20 countries are represented
  • a movie theater
  • grocery store
  • five restaurants

When I first saw this ship and the number of decks on it I thought there might be one or two thousand passengers. As it turns out there are usually only 150 to 200 passengers (owners and guests). There are 280 crew members.

We’re guessing this is for the 1%’ers of the 1%’ers. Very, very fancy and only for the very wealthy!

mercredi 10 juillet 2019 – Wednesday 10 July 2019

On our walk back from the Rocabey Intermarché, we saw the LE FRANÇAIS moored in the basin. It is a 3 mast sailing boat for hire. You can find more information at this link.

  • LE FRANÇAIS
  • LE FRANÇAIS

Last weekend Phil had used “Harry’s” sliced bread to make bread crumbs for the meatballs . Harry’s is a French company which makes American sandwich breads. We bought eggs last week too, so we had both eggs and bread left. Sandy used them to make French toast for lunch. The eggs sold in France are almost always brown, from brown hens, and are never refrigerated in the store. They’re on a shelf in the store similar to cereal or canned goods. They are a beautiful color.

  • egg packaging
  • the eggs
  • the result

jeudi 11 juillet 2019 – Thursday 11 July 2019

Sandy met with her tutor Christine while Phil shopped at the E.Leclerc hypermarché. Christine told Sandy the winter population of Saint-Malo is about 50,000 people. The 14th of July celebration is this Sunday. Another 40,000 people are expected in the area to watch the fireworks at 23h10.

Christine also said she’d been swimming this week. She said the water wasn’t too cold, it had already reached 19C (66F). Can’t imagine water that cold to swim in!

The cruise ship, The World, was still moored in the harbor this afternoon when we watched the boules game. After the boules game we walked to the harbor. Got lucky and spotted a cormorant in the harbor. Got really lucky as I was able to get the camera out just before it decided to take flight.

  • cormorant swimming around
  • cormorant getting ready
  • cormorant takes off

On our way back to the apartment we stopped in the Place du Marché aux Légumes to people watch and listen to a performer. Here is a short clip of his performance.

Fiddler in Place du Marché aux Légumes video

vendredi 12 juillet 2019 – Friday 12 July, 2019

Today it is cloudy, cool and the air is full of moisture. It is barely sprinkling. The drops are so fine you can hardly see them at all. But, you can definitely feel drops on your arms.

The restaurant on our corner is getting a very large awning on our side of their building. It will provide shade in the heat of the day and protection from rain. They have 3 tables under the awning. They must be doing a pretty good business to afford such an addition.

  • small white van of the guys installing the awning
  • getting ready to lift the awning
  • lifting the awning
  • adjusting the mounting
  • the awning is up, open and being adjusted

Around 15h30 we tried to take a walk on the beach. High tide was expected at 16h30 with a co-efficient of 57 which means it is a very low high tide. We walked a ways then were running out of beach. The waves were washing towards us but we saw one of the stairways up to the digue and quickly made it before our feet were wet. Back to the harbor for us!

  • beach at a low high tide looking north
  • beach at a low high tide looking south

On our way to the harbor we went past one of the basins. We have been watching the freighter ACTIVE unload it’s cargo in the basin. It started unloading on the 8th of July and by the 12th it was completely unloaded. Not sure why it took so long, but then again that might be normal.

  • sitting low in the water starting to unload on 8 July
  • sitting high in the water after unloading 12 July

samedi 13 juillet 2019 – Saturday July 13, 2019

Saturday morning we took a walk to the Rocabey marché. On the way we witnessed the following interesting event.

Saturday morning, a man, a motorcycle and 3 dogs

The man on the motorcycle zoomed past us with no dogs. They were running behind him trying to catch up. He eventually stopped and they all jumped on the motorcycle.

We had seen this man and his 3 dogs on the motorcycle before. Another time we saw him on a bike with one dog and the two others in an attached cart. He had always zipped past before I could get my camera ready. This time he sped by us with no dogs. About 100 meters ahead he stopped and let the dogs catch up. The first 2 jumped on to the motorcycle. The 3rd was too tired to jump up and had to be lifted on to the motorcycle. Then they sped off.

Saturday morning after the man and his dogs

Saturday morning at the Rocabey marché was interesting with a big crowd.

We wanted to buy a couple of Cordon Bleus from a new vendor Sandy had noticed the other day. We also were looking for round zucchinis (couregettes). If we found the round zucchinis we then wanted to by some tomato stuffing (farci a tomate) to use in the zucchinis.

The marché was incredibly crowded. Every vendor seemed to have ten to fifteen people in line. But we found everything we needed even if it took a while.

Sandy had found a recipe for stuffed round zucchinis and wanted to try it.

I took the short video below while I was in line for 20 minutes at the butchers in the Rocabey marché. To make the video larger click on the symbol for full screen in the lower right part of the video.

Rocabey marché video

Tonight we are trying a new restaurant, B’Art à Thé, a tearoom which serves mainly vegetarian dishes. It is 5 minutes from the apartment on the Place du Marché aux Légumes.

  • view of place du marché aux Légumes from terrace table
  • brandade potate cabillaud
  • torte & salad
  • dessert

dimanche 14 juillet 2019 – Sunday July 14, 2019

Today is the French National Day (Fête nationale) also called The Fourteenth of July (Quatorze juillet). Tonight at 23h10 there will be a large fireworks display here in the Intra-Muros section of Saint-Malo. The fireworks will be set off from the breakwater (mole) and are supposed to last about one-half hour. That is a lot of fireworks!

14th July Fireworks – 48 seconds

Left the apartment at 22h55 for the 5 minute walk to the Fireworks area. After 20 minutes of fireworks, which were great, we walked back to the apartment and were in bed by 23h45.

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