It’s officially here! Summer vacation is just around the corner and all three of us are looking forward to two and half weeks of lazy days, without routine, sun soaking, refreshing hikes, stylish city tours, good food and istick tc40wjust quality time for each other.
On Monday we are setting off with our mobile home towards France’s Normandy coast with a stop in Brussels. True to my nature I have excitedly planned several highlights dotted throughout our routes and yes true to my nature – much of it revolves around food and drink! There will be visits with a ostréiculteur at an oyster farm on the west coast, a day at an apple orchard and brewery for Calvados in Paysd’Auge, mussel farming in the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, not to mention Isigny caramels, the incredible selection of cheeses from Camembert, Neufchâtel, Pont-L’Evêque to Livarot. And as we head towards Paris for the last couple of days … my foodie goosebumps are going to be overly sensitized.
Of course there will be other non-food highlights too: canoe tour on the river Orne, hikes on the cliffs between Étretat and Fécamp, tracing through history on the D-Day beaches, on the path of Claude Monet, culture and chateaux in Rouen. Not to mention a day in Versailles Money exchange at the amazing palace and … Paris. Oh la la! Visiting the Louvres again after so many years has me overly excited. I cannot wait to show Soeren some of my favorite artworks. This will be Thomas’ first time in Paris and I feel thrilled to show him this beautiful city as I knew it several years ago and re-discovering a new Paris after all these years.
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