Friday, another cool day but not raining.

Train to Giverny via St. Lazare then shuttle to Monet’s garden.

Well, the train was planned but then when looking at the schedule and how to go from Vernon to the gardens could not find a schedule for the bus. Well, found conflicting schedules so discussed with the concierge at the hotel. Take the tour bus, cheaper and direct. We took it and it worked pretty well. Would have liked more than 2 hours at the garden but….

Breakfast at Bread and Roses. Don’t bother to go. Food very good but usual poor French service bordering on ignoring completely. Cheese from a famous cheesemonger Mere Richard.

Hayfever is forever but QB’s cold would have been only a few days. Could not get a clear answer which would be worse but it appears that it has been hayfever all along. Getting a little better as the weather has been cooler.

Now I need to correct the attribution for La Tourelle. Turns out the source is Dee who passed it onto Elizabeth-Dennis. Much relief on finally having the correct attribution.

The timing for our visit to Giverny was perfect! Weather perfect, all the flowers except the roses (June timing) were out in full glory.

QB took many pics, they are linked here.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0GPwRx_Y-2ZCfc0TZLSgg5OQg#Giverny,_Upper_Normandy

A few additional shots to give the flavor.

Dinner in the 15th at another Dee recommendation: Baribal

Unlike La Tourelle this is not a family restaurant and is not prix fixe. However the food was excellent and properly prepared. Mains were Bar (a white bass I believe) and dourade.

Some rotation might be present as I thought that the plugin was working and did not concern myself with portrait or landscape mode.

Tomorrow we start at Carton and work ourselves silly with that hood.