Breakfast from the Boulangerie

Buying the daily bread is so much a part of the French way of life and in a world full of ever bigger supermarkets, the French boulangerie is indeed special.  Some are tiny and workaday, others are altogether more sophisticated, selling elaborate and tempting pastries, fruit tarts and chocolates.  Our village boulangerie is of the tiny, workaday kind but on Sunday mornings there are croissants, pains aux chocolats and pains aux raisins on offer... Who could resist...!