the week ending Sunday July 31, 2022 – la semaine se terminant le dimanche 31 juillet 2022

31 Sunday Jul 2022

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backroads bicycle tours, bas-sablons, cafe-de-l-ouest, commodore goodwill, crepes, digue, dinard, esplanade saint-vincent, guy, helicopter, jean-michel, kennedy bus stop, magpie, plage des bas-sablons, renard, rocabey, rochebonne

MONDAY-25th took the number 6 bus to BricoMarché, the local big box hardware store, to look into ideas to keep Sophie from escaping the apartment. Did not really come up with any good ideas, so we will just have to stay vigilant.

In the afternoon we walked to the harbor.

***Threatening skies in the afternoon, but no rain.***

TUESDAY-26th had our haircuts at Studio 3 at 10:30. Then we went to the Intermarché Super for our normal big store shopping.

In the late afternoon we took a walk to the harbor and then headed to the Café de L’Ouest to meet our friend Jean-Michel for a drink. He surprised us by bringing crêpes to the resto. So with our Orangina drinks we got to try some very tasty crêpes. The crêpes were from the crêperie owned by the same company, Maison Hector, which owns the Café de L’Ouest. They own 4 or 5 restaurants in the area. Well the crêpes were wonderful, so we will have to try the crêperie in the next couple of weeks. Jean-Michel was giving us a taste of the crêpes which originated here in western France, Brittany.

WEDNESDAY-27th We did a long walk on the digue in the morning to see the sights.

***Sights we saw on the digue Wednesday morning.***

In the afternoon we went to the boules court and then to the harbor. There were a lot of people traveling back and forth between Saint-Malo and Dinard which is on the other side of the bay of Saint-Malo. It is a 15 minute boat ride.

***A lot of people coming and going on the shuttle boat between Saint-Malo and Dinard.***

THURSDAY-28th was the day the city water department decided to tear up the street about 30 meters from our apartment building. They made a lot of noise to replace about 3 meters of pipe.

***tamping down ground after the repair and before laying the asphalt***

In the morning we walked to the Rocabey marché for meat; sausages, beef and sandwich ham.

***a magpie on our way to the Rocabey marché***

In the afternoon we walked to the boules court where we saw the vans from the BACKROADS bicycle tour company. They are a common sight here in Saint-Malo in the summer. Bicycling is a very popular activity in the area of Brittany.

***BACKROADS cycling tours, a common sight in the summer***

FRIDAY-29th And without any demands on our time we took a walk to the Bas Sablons area of Saint-Malo. It is the area just south of us that has the big harbor for pleasure boats. There we explored an area which we had not visited for at least 5 years. We found a nice resto/bistro to have a drink before returning home.

In the evening we met our friend Guy for drinks. We met at a resto/bistro across the street from the train station which was about the same distance from both of our apartments. The Cuisine de rue is a small resto/bistro which was perfect for our needs. We had Oranginas, beers and chips. We were able to catch up with what was new with Guy. It was a very nice evening.

SATURDAY-30th and we took the bus to Rochebonne and returned via the digue.

In the afternoon we were at the harbor as the Commodore Goodwill left for its next stop.

SUNDAY-31st the last day of the month. An overcast day without sun in the morning. We took the number 9 bus from the esplanade Saint-Vincent to the Kennedy bus stop in Rochebonne. Then we walked along the digue on our way home.

***Our balcony with Sandy’s great looking geraniums!***

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Monday afternoon walk to the harbor and mole
Monday afternoon walk to the harbor and mole
Monday afternoon walk to the harbor and mole
Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor
Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor
Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor
Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor
Tuesday afternoon walk to the harbor
Wednesday morning walk on the digue
Wednesday morning walk on the digue
Wednesday morning walk on the digue
Wednesday morning walk on the digue
Wednesday morning walk on the digue
Wednesday afternoon walk to the harbor
Wednesday afternoon walk to the harbor
Thursday morning walk to Rocabey marché
Thursday morning walk to Rocabey marché
Thursday afternoon at the boules terrain
Finishing the water pipe repairs
Finishing the water pipe repairs
Finishing the water pipe repairs
Finishing the water pipe repairs
Finishing the water pipe repairs
Finishing the water pipe repairs
Finishing the water pipe repairs
Friday morning walk to Bas Sablons
Friday morning walk to Bas Sablons
Friday morning walk to Bas Sablons
Friday morning walk to Bas Sablons
Friday morning walk to Bas Sablons
Friday morning walk to Bas Sablons
Friday morning walk to Bas Sablons
Friday morning walk to Bas Sablons
Friday morning walk to Bas Sablons
Friday morning walk to Bas Sablons
Friday morning walk to Bas Sablons
Friday morning walk to Bas Sablons
Saturday morning walk on the digue
Saturday morning walk on the digue
Saturday morning walk on the digue
Saturday morning walk on the digue
Saturday morning walk on the digue
Saturday morning walk on the digue
Saturday morning walk on the digue
Saturday morning walk on the digue
Saturday morning walk on the digue
Saturday morning walk on the digue
Saturday morning walk on the digue
Saturday afternoon at the harbor
Saturday afternoon at the harbor
Saturday afternoon at the harbor
Saturday afternoon at the harbor
Sunday morning walk on the digue
Sunday morning walk on the digue
Sunday morning walk on the digue
Sunday morning walk on the digue
Sunday morning walk on the digue
Sunday morning walk on the digue
Sunday morning walk on the digue

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

the week ending Sunday July 10, 2022 – la semaine se terminant le dimanche 10 juillet 2022

11 Monday Jul 2022

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MONDAY-4th… We waited to 10:50 to take the bus to Rochebonne for our return walk on the digue. We waited that long so there would be more sunshine on the digue. The temperature at 11 this morning was only 17°C.

The 4th of July is not a holiday here, so it was pretty much business as usual on the digue.

Our afternoon walk took us past the boules players where we said hello and then we walked on the mole. Beautiful day all around.

***Walk to the harbor – sea gull paddling along in the harbor***

TUESDAY-5th had our normal shopping trip to the Intermarché Super.

We watched the first parade of the Folklore-du-Monde in the late afternoon. It started at the Esplanade Saint-Vincent right by the castle.

From the parade, which only lasted 10 minutes, we walked to the digue. We were meeting friends for dinner and we were early, so we stopped at a hotel resto-bistro which was right on the digue. We had a nice white wine with peach liqueur, a Kir.

We had dinner at the restaurant L’Olivier on the Sillon. Pizza with our friends Jean-Louis and Claudine who brought their 8 year old grand-daughter Thea. It was very good as usual.

WEDNESDAY-6th walk on the digue to find the resto-bistrot Sandy had noticed last week. We had a drink, an Orangina, at the resto-bistrot called Les-Charmettes. We sat on the terrace, sipped our Oranginas and enjoyed a terrific view of the sea. Our server was a young lady who explained their food menu and spent some time talking with us.

***A lot of activity in the water while we had our drinks, Orangina, at the Les Charmettes***

In the late afternoon we went to the see the start of the Folklore-du-Monde parade at the Esplanade Saint-Vincent.

THURSDAY-7th we had a nice visit to the Rocabey marché. The butcher was in a good mood, and Phil asked him if the meat was “free” today. He replied “No, that was yesterday.” This was the second week in a row that he used the same punchline, so we teased him about it.

FRIDAY-8th and lunch at Les-Charmettes on the digue. We arrived at 12:15 and while we did not have a reservation, we did get a table toward the back of the terrace. We had a glass of rosé wine and a very good lunch. We shared a tiramisu for dessert. The view of the sea was wonderful.

Watched the start of the Folklore-du-Monde parade at the Esplanade Saint-Vincent. There was a group from Brittany and a group from the Czech Republic. Both stopped to perform their traditional dances before walking through the stone gates to enter the Intra-Muros.

SATURDAY-9th and we planned to take a walk. Big surprise. The walk today was through Saint-Servan, a stop at the Rosarie-Saint-Anne, then to the Solidor tower. We stopped by the Solidor tower and had a couple of drinks, grenadine and water, at the Le Cancalaise bistro-resto.

We had the usual great view, plus we got to watch an artist working on a painting.

***view from Le Cancalaise retro-bistro***

***Our walk through Saint-Servan, Roserie-Sainte-Anne, Tour Solidor and Bas Sablons.***

SUNDAY-10th marked the end of Folklore-du-Monde festival. We took a bus at 10:15 to the Rochebonne area near Paramé. The parade started in Rochebonne and ended in Paramé. We got a good spot in the shade to watch the parade. The shade was more important to us than having a close view of the parade. As usual there was a big crowd. The crowd was constantly nudging forward to get a closer look at the parade. We did not play that game and just stayed in the shade. It was a nice parade which lasted about 35 minutes.

***Some pictures from the Folklore-du-Monde parade.***

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