I was in the middle of Blois at afternoon tea time time. The cakes at Stéphane Buret’s Salon de Thé looked very temptant – but I resisted! Je me suis trouvée au cente ville de Blois à l’heure du thé aujourd’hui. Les gâteaux chez Stéphane Buret étaient bien tentants mais j’ai résisté …
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Postcard from New York – Little Italy
This is Little Italy’s iconic Italian deli which started out as a latteria (dairy store) in 1910. Surprisingly there are not a lot of traffic problems in New York despite the many large cars such as this typically American jeep. Di Palo’s, une institution dans Little Italy, et la meilleure épicerie fine italienne du quartier, a commencé par être une …
The Healthy Vending Machine – Le distributeur automatique santé
We came across this fruit and vegetable vending machine on the bike route in Cour Cheverny just as it was being refilled. What a clever idea! The photo below shows the inside. It’s open 24/7 and is refrigerated. The prices are very reasonable with a selection of several items and the produce looks very fresh. Cool. …
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The Golden Croissant – Au Croissant d'Or
I haven’t tried their golden croissant – I was looking out the car window at the time – but I love this old style bakery in Avenue Gramont in Tours that also sells chocolate and ice-cream. Je n’ai pas essayé leur croissant d’or – je regardais par la fenêtre de la voiture – mais j’aime …
The Barber Shop – Le barbier
I didn’t think that barber shops still existed but I saw a man being shaved inside this one in the historical part of Blois. Je ne pensais pas que les barbiers existaient encore mais j’ai vu un monsieur qui se faisait raser dans ce magasin dans le vieux Blois.
Eternal Tatoo
This seems a very unlikely place to have an tatoo shop, on a corner in suburbia in Blois, but it’s a going concern. The photo was taken on Sunday. On ne s’attend pas à trouver un tatoueur ici, dans un faubourg de Blois, mais le magasin marche bien. La photo est prise un dimanche.
The Gilder – La Doreuse de Blois
I think it’s wonderful that a gilder i.e. someone whose occupation is to overlay objects with gold, silver and copper, still exists in Blois today. Délia Louis, who opened her workshop on Rue Beauvoir over ten years ago, has both private and institutional clients. Her main work involves frames for paintings and mirrors.. Je trouve merveilleux …
The Official Bakery of Father Christmas – La boulangerie officielle du père-noël
Now, this one is a mystery. What on earth could be the signficance of this official bakery of Father Christmas in Blois? En voilà un mystère ! Que pourrait bien être la signification de cette boulangerie officielle du père-noël à Blois ?
The Three Keys – Les trois clés
There is a three keys street, a three keys pharmacie, a three keys restaurant and a three keys grocery stone in Blois but the only information I can find on the origin of these three large keys is that several locksmiths lived in the street. Nous avons la rue des Trois clés, la pharmacie des Trois clés, …
Crédit Blésois
I noticed this building in Blois for the first time today. Despite my research I was not able to find out if the Crédit blésois was simply a local bank or a state-owned pawnshop. J’ai remarqué ce bâtiment pour la première fois aujourd’hui à Blois. Malgré mes recherches je n’ai pas pu savoir si le …