Carrefour in Brive Sandy and I are over our flu and decided to head to Brive today. Brive is a medium size city about 40 minutes north of here. It houses a wonderful cathedral, major SNCF station for the area and a Carrefour. Carrefour is the reason we made the trip. Carrefour is what Super Walmart should be. Built into a shopping centre it is huge with easily distinguishable departments - food divided into a bakery, fish market, meat department, huge cheese section(bien sur), hardware, books, clothing, furniture, etc. A bank, cleaner, DVD rental all can be found. Anything you might want but minus the cheap Walmart crap and the terrible displays. It is soldes time. Sales don't happen all year round but by French law only during a couple of designated weeks each year. Think
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