Shopping in Frances is awesome, when it comes to what you can get your hands on in certain places. Heading out and about from where we’re currently staying (You have to remember this is for a different date on perspective) the weather hasn’t been great so the only choice you get here is either, sit watching TV and playing cards or the better option is heading out to a French town to go shopping….or more directly going to a supermarket and sports shop.

This is how we’ve spent the first days here either sitting back to relax or going out to distract from the crappy weather (The option of going to the beach is there but as mentioned it’s raining so not really up there). Shops here are great for the reasons I can think of ranging from the supermarkets (Even the small ones) have a half decent selection of video-games and magazines. Magazines here are always the best, so they’re in French! I don’t care as long as I have something to distract me from the weather. I’m happy with anime magazines that have a friskier attitude….sorry back to the article.

The one thing that strikes me about French shops is how nice they are…in the whole they’re nice to walk about, looking at the selection of fresh food you’re unlikely to find in the UK supermarkets without it having about three layers of packaging denying the sweet aroma to escape. The nice aroma of fresh bread, fish, fruit, vegetables, cheese, meat and well that’s all the beautiful scents I can image right now in the back of my mind twirling up into a sort of taste….a mix taste I want to have in the UK, but unlikely to ever have without first boarding a ferry, heading across the channel for six hours, then finally driving for about two hours to your way to Breast (Best place to shop) or somewhere. Head on into the supermarket and you’ll have the scent of fresh food dragging you in….a sort of childish habit I picked up early on from my younger days when I go to Frances.

Sport shops here are even better when you have this to consider…..they let you freaking ride a bike around the shop. I mean this actually happened with seeing a kid ride about through the aisles on a bike! And they didn’t care! If this was in the UK you could expect someone to complain like hell and be all annoying about it. A sharp comparison between how customers and staff work here in Frances compared to us in the UK….but fucking hilarious to see for the first time in just dodging the kid riding past and quoting to yourself “I was damn near run over by a cyclist” Top Gear reference to anyone who doesn’t get it. Also here, in Frances they sell Nunchuks for 10 Euros and harpoon guns without question and that will always gain a murmured response of “Sweet!” from me.

Thought of the Day: July 21st:

I’ve realised something about myself or that it’s something I chose to keep out of mind most times on how I have this habit of going into a self imposed isolation from people on the basis I prefer the silences of my choosing…..helps to make sense of the world when you have no one to infect the thoughts and considerations you have on how the world….the people are more animals then anything….I’m an animal that chooses the sense of loneliness for comfort then to be around others. I am the lone wolf, in a sense, for a simple descriptions.

Also the date is when the article was written and so you get an idea of why I’m referring to it in a more present tense way.