Время года...место...погода...возраст...
совпали с отпуском по календарю и принесли...удовлетворение! (не люблю слово счастье).
1.Saturday 24th October 2009 Route: Portsmouth-Caen/Ouistreham, NormandieFerry. Departure time: 07:30.
2.Birds show the Land!
3.Arrival time: 14:30
4.The Chateau de Launay...near Saint-Georges-du-Vièvre in the département Eure in the region Haute-Normandie of France. We live just a stone's throw away.
5.The Château de Launay and pigeon: private property, owner opens its doors each year, from August 20 to September 30.
6.The Chateau de Launay, Regence period, is reported by John of the Varende as one of our finest Norman castles. It is surrounded by buildings typical of 16th century timber-framed and basements in chess stone and flint.
7.Our holiday cottage.It has sat for centuries snuggly within a hectare of grass, looking over it's own little valley.
8....are situated in the heart of beautiful, peaceful countryside.
9.Our village.
10...cottage...wonderful time!
11...brainstorm.
12...Discovery Foods...
13...the log fire is blazing.
14...taste...
15.A view from my window....
16.Life through the window ...
17....from my window....
18.Life through the window ...
19.A view from my window....
20...sear and yellow leaf...
21.Discovery...
22.Our village restaurant.
23.LA POTERIE MATHIEU. One of the village's most famous residents is the Russian-born artist Yuri Kuper but...(British, 1940)
24.The fall...
25.Priceless!:-)
26.Well as you can imagine a Russian wooden house in the French diocese!
27.Wordless.
28.Motorways in France are ....beautiful.
29.....beautiful.
30.Giverny, where Claude Monet lived and painted for the last 43 years of his life, from 1883 until his death in 1926. There was more to come, of course, because the garden is in fact 2 gardens - "Le Clos Normand" - a pastel paradise of irises, hollyhocks and climbing roses and the Japanese water garden. You access the second - Japanese water garden "Le Jardin d'Eau" - through an underground passage. The five acre garden is maintained by eight gardeners.
31.Ahhh... the Japanese water garden, dotted with weeping willows, water lilies and the Japanese bridge famously captured in his Nymphaes series.
32.Monet’s Garden, Giverny, France. Liquidambars, weeping willows, poplars, taxodium, beech, chestnut trees all offer their brightest tones duplicated by the mirror of the lake.
33.Monet’s house. Monet was 42 when he arrived in Giverny.
34.The house is beautiful too and deserves a visit for the old furniture and photographs and, most of all, for Monet’s collection of Japanese prints. (Monet didn’t want his own work to decorate his home)
35.Monet’s house.
In the glass cabinets are displayed the blue earthenware crockery and the yellow and blue set , ordered by Monet for special occasions.
36.Monet’s house
37.Late October is the best time to admire the warm reflection of foliage on the surface so often painted by the master of Impressionism.
38.Giverny.
39.Giverny.
40.Bernay, Eure.
41.Bernay, Eure.
42.Bernay, Eure.
43.Bernay, Eure
The town of Bernay was built around its Abbey. The church from the eleventh century is the first of the Romanesque art in Normandy and is where it started. The old accommodation of the abbey was built during the sixteenth century and is nowadays holding the Beaux Arts museum (with ceramics from Rouen, paintings, and other popular traditions). The old streets are rich in history like the Gaston Foloppe street where you can find antiques shops in Middle Age houses, the Sainte Croix and Notre Dame churches, and the old hotel de la Gabelle built during the seventeenth century.
44.... as you can imagine a British Phone Box in the French diocese!
45.Bernay, Eure
46.Built from 1633 to 1640, Beaumesnil is an exceptional Louis XIII baroque construction. Surrounded by 120 acres of park and french formal gardens, this "dream made of stones" (Jean de La Varende) bears nicely furnished interiors and a unique collection of ancient bookbindings.
47.Castle Beaumesnil, the Norman Versailles. Gardens are open everyday, Easter to September... Today...October...Alas. The Château de Beaumesnil is a genuine fairy-tale castle. Successively the property of familes such as the Montmorency-Laval, the Bethune-Charost, the Maistre, the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, it was finally purchased by Jean and Eugenie Fürstenberg in 1939 and they started to restaure the domain after World War two.
48.Castle The Kinnor. Manor typical country trough 14-16th century Typical remarkable trees, the oldest plane tree in western France, jewel of the late 16th century building
49.Castle The Kinnor, Fervaques, Normandy
50.Fervaques...I fell in love Fervaques!
51.Fervaques: Small But Perfectly Formed. For such a lovely tiny town, Fervaques is lucky to not only have these elegance Château-Castle The Kinnor, but also the river...Church, bakery...Surrounded by beautiful forest and hills, it's hard not to appreciate this place.
52...adieu!
53.So far away, one last look...
54.Castle Ouézy - SSR's (Sport Spine Rehab) clinic.
55.Castle Ouézy.
56.Castle Ouézy.
57.Saturday 31st October 2009 Ferry: Normandie,
Route:Caen/Ouistreham-Portsmouth Departure time: 16:00
So...We spent a week in a small cottage picturesquely situated, with a nice view. Lovely cottage and great surroundings! We loved the area - very peaceful. The countryside was perfect for walking, and cycling was excellent even if hard work up hills.We particularly enjoyed visiting local villages by bike, as well as the local walks by the nearby rivers and it was great to come back to a roaring fire each night.. We liked the character of the cottage with everything being supplied and woodburning is perfect! ...the atmosphere is so relaxed down there.
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