Nous sommes ici! We made it this morning arriving at Charles De Gaulle a little bit late as we spent about 45 minutes waiting for take-off on the Newark runways. Flight was OK, a bit bumpy but I don’t mind that rocking when I’m trying to sleep. Mitch does not agree with this. I think we slept more than we thought we did which was not at all. Now we have checked into our first B&B and it is hidden way away in the countryside outside Honfleur. Our GPS appears to have taken us by local shortcuts because we left the highway early and drove about 5 plus miles on one lane tracks. But we got here after asking two natives.
The countryside is just beautiful – all green, flowers, lots of bright fields of mustard. We stopped at Giverny on the way. It’s a touristy, but very lovely town. The line was hours long for Monet’s Garden and House but there are gardens at another museum down the street and it’s a very quaint town so we walked around a bit.
Our room in the B&B is on the ground floor and we even have a little patio which, at the moment, is very hot. Weather is high 70s I would think and we probably both got a little sunburned just with the time walking around Giverny. The room is new and very clean and has one of those European bathrooms where the shower (all new) is right in the middle of the bathroom and everything gets soaked – no curtains, no nothing. Go figure!
We are going to try to stay awake long enough to eat dinner here. I’d like to drive into Honfleur and look around, but that may have to wait until tomorrow.
All is well, and although I just complained about the GPS we’d really be lost without it.
The countryside is just beautiful – all green, flowers, lots of bright fields of mustard. We stopped at Giverny on the way. It’s a touristy, but very lovely town. The line was hours long for Monet’s Garden and House but there are gardens at another museum down the street and it’s a very quaint town so we walked around a bit.
Our room in the B&B is on the ground floor and we even have a little patio which, at the moment, is very hot. Weather is high 70s I would think and we probably both got a little sunburned just with the time walking around Giverny. The room is new and very clean and has one of those European bathrooms where the shower (all new) is right in the middle of the bathroom and everything gets soaked – no curtains, no nothing. Go figure!
We are going to try to stay awake long enough to eat dinner here. I’d like to drive into Honfleur and look around, but that may have to wait until tomorrow.
All is well, and although I just complained about the GPS we’d really be lost without it.
