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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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