Monet – and others

After my adventures in the hotel with the lights going out, I didn’t expect anything else as we had changed address. The TV in my room going on at 3am was not something I bargained for. Very mysterious, especially as the remote control was on a table on the other side of the room. 👻

This morning, off to Monet’s garden at Giverny. I can recommend doing what we did – buying the first ticket of the day online and then getting there early. They let us in around 9.15 when officially they didn’t open until 9.30. By 10.30 the place was heaving. Although the water lilies weren’t in flower, I shall let the pictures speak for themselves.

Apologies if this turns up later than expected but the hotel Wi-Fi is not letting me upload photos.

Cafe next to the car park!
The water lily pond – without waterlilies.
Reflets dans l’eau
Bamboo!
Yellow!
Mainly tulips
Glorious
Monet’s house
The studio. The walls are lined with (copies of) his paintings.
The dining room. Most of the public rooms are lined with Japeneer prints, his studio with his own pictures and his bedroom and dressing room with his friends – Cezanne, Renoir etc.
Mantelpiece
Range in the kitchen

In the afternoon (after costly coffee and cake – Brexit and the subsequent devaluation of the £ means that everything is more expensive), off to Fecamp. We were supposed to go to Etretat but didn’t when it proved to be heaving with market and tourists. This meant we missed the Jardins d’Etretat as well. Next time maybe.

In Fecamp, I had the strangest pizza I have ever had. It was supposed to be a Pizza Regina – ham mushrooms and tomato but I got a mushroom one with two slices of processed ham neatly folded on. We had an ice cream as well to wash it down.

Fecamp beach
Fecamp Harbour.

In the evening, we were off to our hotel in Coursuelles sur Mer Disappointing to find out we were in the annex on a street not overlooking the sea, but the joys of a two storey bedroom overcame that.

Canadian war memorial. The Winnipeg fusiliers landed here in 1944 whilst everyone else was busy up the coast on more well known beaches.
Twinned with Dartmouth.
Sunset over the pier.

2 thoughts on “Monet – and others

  1. Over the winter months, the Warm Welcome sessions in the Institute have meant that I’ve done a lot of jigsaws and a couple of those glorious beds would make wonderful, and scarily difficult, jigsaws….and I could definitely live with the yellow diningroom. The only things I was wondering were firstly, how many gardeners does it take to keep that looking like that and secondly, what does it smell like?
    Safe journey.

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    1. I don’t know how many gardeners they have but I would imagine lots! It was too damp to smell very much and I have a cold so am not smelling much at all at the moment. X

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