stbartshopper
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I drink coffee and my bride loves tea. What are your favorite spots to ‘daydream’ on or off island?
Even though I am somewhat retired, I wake up each morning at 4am. This is due to getting up each morning around that time to catch the first plane or ferry to Nantucket at least 6 days a week for 40 years. Now I go online each morning, check the news and sbhonline, and drink two cups of coffee with a somewhat St. Barts type breakfast. Take the dog for a long walk and either go to work with my brother-in-law or work around our property. We walk at least 8 miles a day in the course of 3 walks and obviously short walks for pee breaks; for the dog not me. I'm a lucky man to have good health, a loving and healthy 3 generation family and the luck of being introduced to St Barts, by Julie Sanford.I drink coffee and my bride loves tea. What are your favorite spots to ‘daydream’ on or off island?
Even though I am somewhat retired, I wake up each morning at 4am. This is due to getting up each morning around that time to catch the first plane or ferry to Nantucket at least 6 days a week for 40 years. Now I go online each morning, check the news and sbhonline, and drink two cups of coffee with a somewhat St. Barts type breakfast. Take the dog for a long walk and either go to work with my brother-in-law or work around our property. We walk at least 8 miles a day in the course of 3 walks and obviously short walks for pee breaks; for the dog not me. I'm a lucky man to have good health, a loving and healthy 3 generation family and the luck of being introduced to St Barts, by Julie Sanford.
I order all of my Bonne Nuit Café Grand-Mère from France. You can buy it at Match/Super U in SBH. The Super U checkout ladies are not pleased when I come through with 20 packages, though.. It is decaf and amazing! (Don't knock this decaf until you try it..) I am happy anywhere I can drink it. It, along with my almond croissant, is the "carrot" that gets me to the gym every day for an hour or 2, and then I get to come home and have my petit déjeuner français. I don't get to have it until after workout...no (ch)eating or drinking before the gym! LOL! The best place to have it is in any Francophone community, but especially in SBH!!
That’s a funny story, davesmom . . . and reminds me of a similar recent experience at Marche U. Wendy & I were on the island, in annual preparation of the Villa for the forthcoming “season.”
There’s a particular private “U” brand of — all things! — toilet paper that we have found & like to stock in the Villa. Seeing a bunch of it on a shelf one day when at the U, I took every package & rolled up to the checkout counter. The young French checkout woman turned to look at the desk just inside the entrance & caught the eye of a guy there. She didn’t say a word as she started scanning each plastic-wrapped package of six rolls of toilet paper. As she was doing so, the aforesaid guy comes up & says, in charming French-accented English, “you like our paper?” I replied, “it’s the best!” He asked if I’d like some more, & when I said “oui,” he was back in a flash with a giant carton of the same —“take as many as you like!” I bought the full carton, & he helped me get all of it to the car.
Marche U offers great service . . . and, while I fully understand the distress related to competition of a “big box” store vs. local business, I’m looking forward to seeing the new Marche U. (In regard to “local business,” BTW, it’s important to know that, facing such competition, other principal grocery purveyors on the island have formed alliances with major French food sources, thus expanding their inventory options & reducing per/item prices. Jojo’s is my favorite in this respect . . . what a pity it would be to lose Jojo’s retail outlet in Lorient.)
I’ll be looking for Bonne Nuit Cafe Grand-Mere at U on my next visit!
What is going on with Jojo's? Are they disappearing? That would be sad.