Kit and Carol on the Road

One of our primo rules to live by is "Never make assumptions" but we still do it all the time. We found out quickly here that the shops in the village are open until 12:30 and then close until 5 when they open again. The shops selling tourist stuff in the town open at 3pm but virtually everything is closed from 1 until 3pm. Except of course the supermarket. So we made the assumption that the supermarket would be open on Sunday--not so. Here we were with almost no food in the house and company coming for dinner and the Marche was ferme. Alas, the centreville was crawling with people--all of the small shops are open on Sunday. So we shopped the French way at the boucherie (meat), boulangerie (bread), wine shop, fruit and veg shop, and got the other things on our list at the 8 to 8. (Actually 8 a Huit) And we waited until Monday to do our big shopping at the supermarket. The walk from our house to the village boulangerie and back takes an hour and a half so we don't do it every day and I have yet to make the trip before breakfast in time to get croissants.