Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Avranches in April

Here's the trip to France finally. For those that don't know, Mum gave Cam and I a week in a house in France for Christmas. She then decided to surprise us(well me, Cam knew) by turning up and coming on the trip with us.

The house we stayed in was in Avranches which is on the north coast of Normandy, France. The area was near Mont Saint Michel which you could see in the distance.
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Avranches
Mont St Michel in the background Mum on a seat
This was the square in the centre of town in Avranches
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Main street by night:
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Mont Saint Michel
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The Mont by night
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Cam looking sofistikaytid
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The market. This is where we picked up a live crab for dinner along with some gorgeous apple cider.
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And this is the cooking and eating of the crab:
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Christian Dior's house... smelt nice. He wasn't home though
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Some little town we saw with a church
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We went out for dinner in the town one night to a pretty little pizza place:
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Omaha Beach memorial, and down on the beach:
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Thankfully I took my golf clubs over and got to play golf on Omaha beach. Well not actually on the beach but on a golf course near the beach. They filmed part of Saving Private Ryan here, I think it was the big golf tournament part, or perhaps that was Caddy Shack? There were some stunning views from the green on the 6th. Didn't see any Germans though, luckily. Although I am getting more accurate with my driver.
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We headed back via a little town where Erik Satie lived his house was a bit of a museum complete with white grand piano and barbed wire harps.
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