An unfortunate assumption

We have quite a few friends visiting this weekend, so we needed to do some extra shopping. We’d driven over to Bar-sur-Aube to go to the Leclerc, it’s a lovely big, modern supermarket, which I like to visit sometimes, especially if I’ve got a big shop to do. Anyway, we arrived around 1.30pm, and were going to have a coffee in the little café that adjoins it before doing our shopping, but when we arrived the car park was closed. ‘What’s happening?’ we thought. We read a sign that said it will be closed on Tuesday 15th August from 12.30pm. How annoying, what was that for? We drove off quite frustrated, how were we to know it would be closed, for what seemed, no obvious reason.

We decided to go to a café in the town for a coffee instead, and to rethink our shopping trip. When we got there it was all a bit quiet, pretty much everything was closed, but we managed to find one café serving the last of lunch, so stopped there.

Brian then muttered “Do you think it is yet another French holiday?”. I hadn’t seen it come up on the calendar, but I thought I should check again anyway. Yep, there it was, ‘The assumption of Mary’. Well it goes to show that you can never assume it’s not going to be a French holiday.

We finished our coffee and after doing a bit of research on google we set off to find another supermarket that we thought might be open. We found an Aldi, and although it wasn’t quite the grand Leclerc store I was hoping for, we did manage to get a lot of what we needed and importantly something to eat that evening.

I’ve now made sure this French holiday is definitely in our calendar, and I don’t think we will forget it now anyway.