My favourite thing to do upon arrival in
France is to go straight to St Malo from the ferry port. This holds all the expectations and
anticipations of a summer in France. It is the beginning of what we hope will
be another memorable summer. There is something magical about St Malo in the morning. It is fresh and bright. The shop owners and stallholders are setting
up. The streets are being cleaned and
the pavements are being swept. The people who are about are the residents of St
Malo, out to buy bread or have a coffee and read the newspaper and we feel part
of this. We speak our ‘first day
French’- net yet honed by the familiarity of hearing the language and
remembering our hard-learned vocabulary. We manage to make ourselves understood
and to achieve almost what we ordered.
Then we settle down to read a French newspaper, enjoy our coffee and
croissant and watch people going by.Another lovely summer in France.
