Made It To Carrefour

We went to Carrefour again. This time, it wasn't Easter. No problems with it being closed--we hoped, at least. We found a way to get there that isn't along the highway.

And it was open. It's the anchor store of a mall called Grand Sud (or is it Sud Grand?). The first thing up reaching it was to find a restroom and happily the restrooms are the free kind. To call it an anchor store doesn't do it justice. It's half the mall.

But Carrefour isn't cheap. It isn't expensive, but it isn't cheap. It just has a large selection. However, they don't have Elena's long-cooking oatmeal. Oh well. We did stock up on more olive oil, laundry detergent for handwashing our laundry (who knew such a thing existed?), and a few other things.

We tried to use our Visa, but it didn't work. The Visa card is really hit and miss. And Elena's Visa card has a chip that the French are using these days. My American Visa is still in the 20th Century with just a magnetic strip. By the way, the French call a 'chip' a 'flea'. Funny to me, at least.

So it's a 1:15 hour walk to Carrefour and another 1:15 walk back from Carrefour. We'll probably go there from time to time--not because it has so much more stuff, but more because Elena really likes to take long walks. ;-) And it's on the way to the sea where we intend to spend some of the warmer days during our trip.