Hyper shopping

Where we live, near Saint-Aignan, we have the necessities. In addition to our regular Saturday market in the town square, we have two decent-sized grocery stores and two hardware stores. There's one discount grocery, and a small corner store. Banks, insurance companies, a few hair salons, restaurants, bars, and several bakeries. We can find most of what we need without going too far.

A recent frosty morning. Can you spot Callie sitting beside the dirt road?

But once in a while we venture out to one of the larger hyper-markets in our region. That means a forty minute drive to either Tours (west), Blois (north), Romo (east), or Loches (south). On Thursday we drove down to Loches to the big E. Leclerc store there because they were having a sale on some stuff we wanted (some meats for the freezer, some cleaning products, a windshield wiper for the car's back window, etc.). The bigger stores have more room and therefore have more variety and choices that we don't have in our smaller stores locally, especially in the produce section.

It's a nice drive through the countryside, although on Thursday it was overcast and drizzly. No matter. The store had pretty much everything on our list, so we were happy. And it was nice to get out of the routine for a bit.