Supermarket shopping in France

This morning after I dropped the girls off at school and garderie I drove to Divonne to go grocery shopping. Divonne is in France and it took me about 40-45 minutes to get there. I haven't been to the Champion there before. I don't think you'd call it a hypermarche (like the ones we'd normally go to across the border) as it was much smaller and had less stuff. And a limited selection of cereal. Disappointed about that as I do like to stock up on cereal when we shop in France. Still managed to spend 150 euros!

Michael is on afternoon shift this week (leaves home around 1.30pm) but he didn't come with me as someone had to pick Lily up. There really wouldn't have been enough time if he came. Not as fun going without him. For a start, I had to drive up that crazy autoroute between Lausanne and Geneva. Don't like that road. Only has two lanes. And you can be on 140kms and someone will still whizz past you. Crazy. I hate it when you are in the passing lane and a car appears in your rear vision mirror and just sits on your tail till you get over.

And the other thing is we enjoy our time poking round different supermarkets. Michael makes a beeline for the wine section (in the hypermarches he gets a bit distracted by all the other stuff - books, whatnot before hitting the wine) and I take my time doing laps of every single aisle. This picture doesn't include kids so it actually constitutes fun time for us.

But now with the crappy school hours our trips to the hypermarches together, just the two us, are over. Sad really.