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25 mai à Saint-Malo – May 25 in Saint-Malo

25 Wednesday May 2016

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doctor, normandy, pharmacy, Place du Marché aux Légumes, prescriptions, sandals

Wednesday May 25, 2016 is a gorgeous day!

Sandy spent a very uncomfortable night due to the pain in her foot.  Phil shopped for a baguette for breakfast.

Instead of heading off to pick up our rental car to drive to Normandy, Phil cancelled the chambre d’hote reservation and the car reservation.  With Sandy’s foot hurting so much it was not a good idea to travel.  We will reschedule the trip to Normandy as soon as Sandy’s foot is better.

At 9:15 Phil stopped by the doctor’s office to arrange an appointment for Sandy. There was an 11:40 appointment available for today so he took it.  The doctor’s office is located in the Intra-Muros right next to the cathedral, a distance of only 300 meters (328 yards).  Very close, but also a long way when you have a sore foot.

While getting ready to walk to the appointment, Sandy had trouble finding shoes which would fit on her swollen foot.  It’s a good thing she had decided to bring a pair of sandals with velcro straps from the USA because none of her other shoes would have fit on her swollen foot.  A last-minute packing decision turned out to be essential, at least for today.

At the doctor’s office we waited about 20 minutes before she came to the waiting room to bring us back to her office. The doctor  was a very nice lady.  She told us her mother was English so language wasn’t a problem. Sandy was convinced she had gout, but had sense enough to go to the doctor rather than self-medicating. Sandy’s diagnosis of gout was mistaken, it was an infection.  Her foot was infected in the same spot where she had received an injection last February for arthritis.   The doctor drained the infected spot on Sandy’s foot, put an antibiotic on it and bandaged it. Sandy got 4 prescriptions and was charged 25€ for the appointment which with the exchange rate today was $28.

Phil took Sandy back to the Place du Marché aux Legumés and sat her down on one of the benches, then he went off to the pharmacy to get the prescriptions.  The 4 prescriptions, 2 oral and 2 topical for two weeks, cost 67€ or $75.

When Phil returned to Sandy, there were 2 gulls walking around in one of the flower beds.  It is not often that 2 gulls are found walking around this close to each other.  One usually chases off the other. But these 2 seemed to get along pretty well.27170339591_55754b92ef_k27205576256_4ad1cf9bb6_k27240072995_15c14487df_k

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13 mai à Saint-Malo – May 13 in Saint-Malo

13 Friday May 2016

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carrefour hypermarche, condor ferry, gomina coiffure, italy license plate, La Madeleine Center, normandy, UPS

Friday May 13 and the slight fog and overcast skies continue for the third day.  We understand from some locals that this is pretty much normal weather for a week or so every May.

An early expedition to the Carrefour hypermarche at the La Madeleine center is the task for the morning.  We got to Carrefour about 9:10 and most of the stores in the center were still closed.  The Carrefour was about as empty as it ever gets.  We actually got all the items on our list.  That does not always happen.

The trip back had an additional planned stop.  Yesterday, Thursday, we had missed a delivery at the apartment.  UPS left us a note stating the package would be available on Friday at a local drop off spot.  The drop off happens to be the Le Trimaran bureau de tabac, which is a bar/tabac/presse.  They sell magazines, newspaper, lottery tickets, candy, tobacco products, and they have a bar.  The bar serves coffee, wine, beer, or soft drinks.  And to top it off, you can also make horse racing bets!

After picking up the package we returned to the Intra-Muros and walked through the parking lot looking for foreign license plates.  Today we found one from Italy (I).

Italy license plate

Italy license plate

Yesterday we started planning a small trip to Normandy during the week of May 23.  We

Gomina Coiffure

Gomina Coiffure

had already scheduled haircut appointments for that week, so today we walked to the haircut shop (Gomina Coiffure) to change our appointments.

In the afternoon we took a walk to the harbor to see what was happening.  The Condor Ferry was just pulling into the harbor to dock.  The dredging vessel and the barge were gone.  We speculate the job of deepening the harbor is done.  The next step will be to build the docking / mooring stations for the fishing boats.  That is all supposed to be done by the end of June.  As for the harbor today, it was pretty quiet all over the place.  The ocean was very calm and not much was going on.

A very quiet harbor today

A very quiet harbor today, with some fog in the background

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