Maussane-les-Alpilles bis

Here are a few more photos that I took in Maussane on the September day in 2001. Again, I took them with a Kodak digital camera that, I see now, took very good pictures.

This is the Café du Centre, on the village square across from the fountain you saw in yesterday's post. I don't remember if we sat down and ate or drank anything. I think we didn't. We just walked around to soak up the atmosphere, and took pictures.

This sign on the front of the café made me laugh. I think whoever wrote the text overdid it with the S's. However, I looked it up in Wiktionnaire (French Wictionary) and it says des petits-déjeuners is the correct plural for petit-déjeuner (breakfast), despite the hyphen. The Robert dictionary says so too. Maybe CHM will have a comment on this point. Actually, I just consulted another dictionary (CNRTL) and I see it gives petit déjeuner without a hyphen. You might think sandwichs without an E is funny, but it makes sense in French because the singular and plural of sandwich are pronounced exactly the same — two syllables, not three. I don't know what to say about hots dogs. The Petit Robert dictionary gives hot-dog and says the plural is des hot-dogs.

I also enjoyed seeing this Casino supérette on the square. It reminded me of little grocery stores that you see sprinkled all around Paris. From what I see on the internet, the Casino chain of superettes and supermarkets still exists, but the store in Maussane doesn't seem to be there any more. I don't see it on Google Maps street view either.

The produce displayed in bins out on the sidewalk looked very fresh and was appetizing. Not to mention colorful.

There was also quite a large selection of wines and apéritif drinks inside the store.

To conclude, I see that there are two other little grocery stores in Maussane these days, so people who live in the town can walk to the store to do their shopping. There is also an Intermarché supermarket in the next town over, Fontvieille, which is a 10 minute drive away.