Tuesday market was on our early agenda - the markets never fail to disappoint as they are an excellent insight into normal French life. There is banter between the stall holder and the shopper, there are those who think it their god given right to walk straight to the front of the queue and there are hundreds of others pulling a trolley or carrying their “sacs” of fruit, veggies and meats & fish.
Our accommodation doesn’t come with parking so the 3008 has sat in a nearby street on free parking as a few of the streets are. We haven’t used it since arriving 9 days ago so every second or third day we walk by it to make sure it is still there and free of any parking ticket and we did so again this morning - all was well, thankfully, but tomorrow we will turn the motor over so we can be sure that on Thursday there is no ugly surprise.
While googling we realised that there was a shopping mall on the outskirts of the city accessible by tram so this afternoon we took said tram to Toison d’Or and arrived at a very modern (and large) shopping centre
In the Toison d’Or there was the largest (by far) of any hypermarket we have ever seen. It was a Carrefour store of enormous proportions even including 9 food stores/small restaurants. One almost needed a map to determine what products were in each aisle and at checkout there was a staff member advising the checkout number we should go to.
Outside I took a couple of photos and as I was walking away I was “accosted” by a security guard who insisted I delete the photos - he stood beside me as I deleted the last photo I took and satisfied he walked away without realising I had a couple of others.
After a couple of hours and a reviver at Starbucks it was back on the tram to the city - what a pity that Auckland doesn’t have such a system as they are very efficient and relaxing to ride on and at €1.70 a ticket good for an hours travel, even on a different tram and/or bus, very inexpensive.Last night as we returned from a restaurant there was a very “unique” thin cloud in the sky above Dijon (it was not a plane contrail as there was one of those visible to the north of the city)
If we were to emigrate to France then Dijon is certainly a city that would be high on our list - we doubt whether we have seen a more livable city.
If we were to emigrate to France then Dijon is certainly a city that would be high on our list - we doubt whether we have seen a more livable city.Kms driven today:0
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