We are getting used to everything shutting for lunch too. Even the equivalent of 'B&Q' over here shuts for lunch - even on Saturdays! Arrive at 1.00 pm to buy some D.I.Y. item? non, non, non! The shutters are down, the car park empty.
We were stunned by this at first and often found ourselves sitting in empty car parks staring in disbelief at closed doors of a Supermarket - on a Saturday??? It is changing slowly and some are now open at least on Saturday and Friday lunch times - but somehow I wish it wouldn't change. This was one of the reasons we loved France and wanted to move here - the way of life, their values, their insistence of putting life and living before work.
As 'a corner shop', the nearest we have is the Cafe des Belles Fleurs - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caf%C3%A9-des-Belles-Fleurs/140218616113186
our local cafe, bar, restaurant, disco, meeting place, gossip centre, line dancing venue, craft club, art class, live music, Franglais Group, and Burns Supper venue and so on.
Where would we be without it?
The CBF is ably run by Joy Manceau Llewellyn who was English but has 'gone native' since she married a French Algerian many years ago and raised a strapping French family of lovely children - amazing for her full 5' 2". Always welcoming with a smile, full of creative ideas and willing to go the extra kilometer for her customers, she works her little socks off.
Thank you Joy. xxxx
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