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Normandy & Brittany 2008
- 1. Normandy & Brittany August 14 –September 1 / 2008 Not so laughing bull ...........and 2 days in Paris
- 2. Roadmap
- 4. Honfleur Eglise / Clocher Ste-Catherine
- 9. Honfleur Chamber d’hotes Atelier Simone L‘Hermitte Rue de l’Homme-de-Bois
- 11. …..the most beautiful ruin in France Abbaye de Jumiege 11-th Century
- 13. Abbaye de Jumiege Abbot’s Lodging 17-th Century
- 17. Rouen Old City
- 18. Old CityRouen
- 19. Old and New Rouen and ….very New
- 20. Old Town virtually wiped out in 1944 Europe’s worst damaged port after WW II Le Havre Tthe center was rebuilt in ‘modernist’ style by Auguste Perret. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005 for "innovative utilization of concrete's potential."
- 21. Place de l’Hotel-de-Ville Le Havre WW I Monument
- 23. Le Havre The Vulcano Espace Oscar Niemeyer 1972-78
- 24. Le Havre Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux
- 25. Le Havre Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux Auguste Renoir
- 26. Le Havre Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre MalrauxRaoul Dufy
- 27. Le Havre Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux Eugene Boudin
- 30. Les Halles Wooden covered market Etretat
- 33. One building, 4 styles: •Primary Gothic •Flamboyant Gothic •Early French Renaissance •Neoclassical ….and a touch of Modern Chateau Fontaine-Henry 11-th to 16-th Century
- 37. Ancienne eglise de Thaon 12-th Century
- 38. Deauville …a heaven for the rich and famous
- 39. Deauville ….and Now Beach ….Then She was here Eugene Boudin (1865)
- 40. Deauville Line-up of the Rich and Famous
- 42. UNESCO World Heritage Site Le Mont-St-Michel View from below View from the top
- 43. Crowds are coming Le Mont-St-Michel
- 45. Le Mont-St-Michel ..not far from the abbey
- 47. Dinan Rue du Jerzual
- 49. Dinan Windows
- 53. St-Malo
- 56. St-Malo Beaches
- 57. St-Malo Chateau
- 58. Cancale Brittany’s oyster capital
- 59. Cancale Oyster farming (Parc a huitres)
- 60. Cancale Oyster selling Lemon extra 0.50 €
- 61. Cancale Oyster eating ..and the leftovers
- 63. Cancale Having fun ..at all ages
- 64. Pointe du Grouin
- 65. Pointe du Grouin
- 66. Pointe du Grouin Le Mont St-Michel
- 68. St-Lunaire Beach houses…for rich ….and poor people
- 69. Dinard Tents…for rich people
- 72. Cote d’Emeraude vue Fort la Latte 12th Century
- 75. Quimper
- 76. Quimper Faience style train Quimper style Faience
- 77. Quimper 2 + 3 = typical French family somewhere ..in Quimper France now has the second- highest fertility rate in Europe Incentives for families who have a 3- rd child. During a year-long leave after the birth of the third child, mothers will receive $960 a month from the government, twice the allowance for the second child. Under French law, a woman can take up to 3 years off . Her full-time job will be guaranteed when she returns 5 1 + 2 Child subsidies also apply to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie . They are eligible for $2,600 a month in child benefits for their six children after registering their French chateau as their primary residence.
- 78. Quimper Wedding in Quimper
- 79. Parish Closes Guimiliau (Enclos paroissiaux) Church Charnel House Funeral Chapel Ossuary Triumphal Arch Cemetery Church Calvary 16-th & 17-th centuries
- 80. Church Sizun
- 83. Pleyben Church
- 85. Sizun Lampal- Guimiliau Painted wood Modern window
- 86. Guimiliau Ossuaries St-Thegonnec Cemeteries were tiny and bodies had to be exhumed. Bones were piled up in these shelters, considered a bridge between the living and the dead.
- 87. Sizun Ossuary ………..changed to Funeral Chapel….changed to Tourist Souvenirs shop
- 88. Sizun Triumphal Arch ….symbol of “the entry of the righteous to immortality”
- 89. Guimiliau Calvary Typical Breton monuments representing scenes from Crucifixion and Passion
- 91. Pleyben CalvaryCalvary The Last Supper
- 92. Calvary details St-Thegonnec The Blindfolded Christ Guimiliau
- 95. Guimiliau More Details Sizun Eve is born Adam, Eve and the Apple Sleeping?..drunken?
- 97. Morlaix ‘Viaduct’ for Paris –Brest railway 19-th Century
- 98. Baix de Morlaix Ile Callot Road under water
- 100. Brest Oceanopolis
- 101. Presqu’Ille de Crozon Pointe de Penhir
- 102. Presqu’Ille de Crozon Pointe de Penhir
- 103. Presqu’Ille de Crozon Pointe de Penhir
- 104. Presqu’Ille de Crozon Pointe de Penhir
- 105. Presqu’Ille de Crozon Pointe de Penhir
- 106. Presqu’Ille de Crozon Pointe de Penhir
- 107. Presqu’Ille de Crozon Pointe des Espagnoles
- 108. Carnac Megaliths Menec: 1,170 menhirs Kermario: 990 menhirs Kerlescan: 540 menhirs
- 109. Carnac Different stones for different people
- 111. Locmariquer Carved stone inside the dolmen Dolmen Dolmen de Mane-Rethual
- 113. Window detail Concarneau Soup bowls with a touch 2000 surnames available
- 114. Concarneau 7 sins
- 115. Pont-Aven
- 116. Pont-Aven Aven river Watermill 2008 Watermill –by Gauguin 1894
- 117. Pont-Aven Early 1890s : Pont-Aven School was an artists' colony gathering around Paul Gauguin Today: tourists gathering around many commercial art galleries Paul Gauguin neither was born or ever lived here. When Gauguin is away…Paudevillle is filling in.
- 118. Fouesnant-les-Glenan
- 119. Our little house near Quimper Kerdevot One piece stone cow trough Gran’pa used to live there …the cow lived here
- 120. Our little house near Quimper…..and our neighboursKerdevot
- 121. Market DayKerdevot
- 123. Main Square Locronan
- 127. DoorsLocronan
- 129. Pointe-du-Raz
- 130. Pointe-du-Raz
- 131. Pointe-du-Raz
- 132. Pointe-du-Raz
- 133. Cathedrale St-Pierre Vannes Vannes and his wife city ‘mascots’ from16-th C
- 134. Vannes The Old Town Place Henri
- 136. Timber detailsVannes
- 137. Post detailsVannes
- 142. Golfe de Morbihan Ile aux Moines
- 143. Ile aux Moines
- 144. Ile aux Moines People on bikes