La poste

If you’ve spent any time in France you would be forgiven for thinking this is the ‘hôtel de ville’, or the mayor’s offices, and you would be right. What you would find harder to guess is that this is also the main post office of the quaint little village of Mussy-sur-Seine, which is steeped in history and well worth a visit.

On the whole, for non French people, the hôtel de ville can be a rather imposing building, and one that you really need good purpose to approach and enter. So strolling up the front stairs and going through the metal doors in the hope of finding a post office can be a little daunting, but that’s what we had to do, as Apple Maps was certain it was here. Fortunately, it was right. Behind the grey metal doors is a glass fronted, modern post office counter, with a smiling receptionist behind it.

But why did we drive the 15 km to Mussy to post our mail? Well, recently our local post office hours have changed, and I’d forgotten that the main post office in Bar-sur-Seine is now closed on a Monday! In fact all our satellite offices also seem to be closed on a Monday, they seem to do a half day on Saturday, and then have Sunday and Monday off. Thankfully for us though, Mussy was open, and our important post was sent on its way.