Normandy 2018 - DAY 02

what one sees in Bayeux

Friday, 27 July 2018: after a lovely breakfast and a stroll through the parc of our 'present home', we visited the Pointe de Brevands and several villages in the parc natural des Marais du Cotentin, the tapestry of Bayeux, the Notre Dame de Bayeux and the Musee Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie.

Afterwards visiting the flee market of Porte en Bessin and had dinner at restaurant L'Ecailler (tip of Femke).

breakfast at our chateau with the landlord James

lots of land belonging to the chateau

the pond

the main house

After a relaxing start of the day at the chateau, we started our day with a stop at Catz to visit the church and churchyard.

some parts need maintenance

Pointe de Brevands: wildflowers and sea 

planning the next route 

lunch with a salad, a bottle of mineral water AND our first crepes this holiday at Carentan, Restaurant Quai 16.

Next stop: Bayeux

Notre Dame de Bayeux

the crypte of the cathedral

Tapestry of Bayeux: the reason why we visited the city in the first place, tells the story of the battle of Hastings. See Wiki for indepth info

Walking the city of Bayeux

visiting the Musee Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie: so many lost their lifes in the battle that was fought here in this region during WW II

Our next stop is Porte en Bessin, a tip of our friend Femke, who had dinner in restaurant L'ecailler a few weeks ago when she and Gerard were there.

couldn't resist buying some sausages

Dinner at Restaurant L'ecailler

oysters of course 

Peter's choice was a really great entree 

wine and a view

mussels

When driving home we passed the beaches where the allied forces had fought during WWII, Omaha Beach.

Normandy 2018 - DAY 01

Crandcamp de Maisy

Thursday, 26 July 2018: 

Although our holiday to Italy is just 3 weeks ago, we decided to travel again because at this moment in our lifes we have no work and/or other obligations to worry about, sooo it's a perfect time to travel.  

Normandy and Bretagny it will be.

Starting with a 4 nights stay in a Chateau in Normandy, which we booked upfront. The journey was relaxed and we had an interesting stop.

Some photos to illustrate:

ponte de Normandie

Stop at Honfleur, which has a lovely harbour, where the famous impressionist painters used to go in the 19th century. It's horrible hot here (as in Leiderdorp) over 30 degrees Celcius

We visited in Honfleur an exhibition of a photographer who travelled through Russia and made awesome photos, showing my favs

water ..... necessary with these temparatures

After checking into our home for the next 4 nights; the Chateau Vouilly (photos in tomorrow's blog post) we went to the nearby village of Grand Camp Maisy to have dinner. A lovely place near the sea with a photogenic harbour. Couldn't stop making photos.

We had dinner at restaurant La Trinquette. Of course I started with oysters, after all this is shell fish territory 😏

main courses: Peter had fish with a coquille and risotto, I had duck with pepper sauce and french frites 

les desserts

After dinner we walked the harbour, great light to make photos, which I did 😏

Time to go to sleep. We opened the window to let in some cool air, and guess what .... it cooled down to about 17 degrees. We needed a blanket at 6 o'clock.

To be continued