Normandy & Brittany 2008

Normandy & BrittanyAugust 14 –September 1 / 2008

Not so laughing bull

...........and 2 days in

Paris

Roadmap

Normandy

HonfleurVieux Bassin

HonfleurEglise / Clocher Ste-Catherine

Honfleur

Market Day

HonfleurCheeses

Cheeses…

Honfleur

………and………….……………..……………………….after

Cider Before

Cidre

Honfleur

Garlicman

Spice boys

HonfleurChamber d’hotes

Atelier Simone L‘Hermitte

Rue de l’Homme-de-Bois

Pont de NormandieHonfleur

…..the most beautiful ruin in France

Abbaye de Jumiege11-th Century

Abbaye de Jumiege

Abbaye de Jumiege

Abbot’s Lodging 17-th Century

Rouen

Cathedrale Notre-Dame 12-th Century

Capital of Upper Normandy

RouenCathedrale Notre-Dame

Serial paintings, 1890s

Claude Monet

Rouen

Cathedrale Notre-Dame

Rouen

Old City

Old City Rouen

Old and New

Rouen

and ….very New

Old Town virtually wiped out in 1944Europe’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."

Place de l’Hotel-de-Ville

Le Havre

WW IMonument

Eglise St-JosephLe Havre

Le Havre

The Vulcano

Espace Oscar Niemeyer

1972-78

Le HavreMusee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux

Le Havre

Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux

Auguste Renoir

Le Havre Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre MalrauxRaoul

Dufy

Le Havre

Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux

Eugene Boudin

EtretatFalaiseD’Amont

Etretat Falaise d’Aval

Les Halles Wooden covered market

Etretat

Windows & walls

Etretat

..just a wallEtretat

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

Chateau Fontaine-Henry

Chateau Fontaine-Henry

Peekaboo! I see you!

Chateau Fontaine-Henry

Inside&

Outside

Ancienne eglise de Thaon

12-th Century

Deauville …a heaven for the rich and famous

Deauville

….and Now

Beach ….Then

She washere

Eugene Boudin (1865)

Deauville

Line-up of the Rich and Famous

8-th Century

Le Mont-St-Michel

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Le Mont-St-Michel

View from below

View from the top

Crowds are coming

Le Mont-St-Michel

Interior Design

Le Mont-St-Michel

Le Mont-St-Michel

..not far from the abbey

Brittany

St-Jacut-de-la-Mer

Dinan Rue du Jerzual

Dinan

Rue du Jerzual

Dinan Windows

Dinan

Walls

& Benches

Dinan

BasiliqueSt-Sauveur

Dinan

Chambre d’hotes‘Belle Assise’

St-Malo

St-MaloWalled city

St-MaloPeople of

St-MaloBeaches

St-Malo Chateau

Cancale Brittany’s oyster capital

Cancale

Oyster farming

(Parc a huitres)

Cancale

Oyster selling

Lemon extra 0.50 €

Cancale

Oyster eating

..and the leftovers

Cancale

..drinks

..anybody?

Cancale

Having fun

..at all ages

Pointe du Grouin

Pointe du Grouin

Pointe du Grouin

Le Mont St-Michel

St-Lunaire

beaches

St-LunaireBeach houses…for rich ….and poor people

Dinard Tents…for rich people

St-Lunaire Market Day

Low

tide

St-Jacut-de-la-Mer

Cote d’Emeraude vue

Fort la Latte12th Century

Cap FrehelCote d’Emeraude

Quimper

Cathedrale

St-Corentin

13-15th Century

Quimper

Quimper

Faience style train

Quimper style Faience

Quimper

2 + 3 = typical French familysomewhere ..in Quimper

France now has the second-highest fertility rate in Europe

Incent ives for famil ies who have a 3-rd chi ld . 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 Angel ina Jol ie . They are eligible for $2,600 a month in child benefits for their six children after registering their French chateau as their primary residence.

Quimper Wedding in Quimper

Parish Closes

Guimiliau

(Enclos paroissiaux)

Church

Charnel House Funeral Chapel

Ossuary

Triumphal Arch

Cemetery

Church

Calvary

16-th & 17-th centuries

ChurchSizun

Lampal-Guimiliau

Church

St-ThegonnecChurch

PleybenChurch

Interiors

Sizun

Lampal-Guimiliau

Sizun

Lampal-Guimil iau

Painted wood Modern window

Guimiliau

Ossuaries St-ThegonnecCemeteries were tiny and bodies had to be exhumed.

Bones were piled up in these shelters, considered a bridge between the living and the dead.

SizunOssuary ………..changed to Funeral Chapel….changed to Tourist Souvenirs shop

Sizun Triumphal Arch ….symbol of “the entry of the righteous to immortality”

Guimiliau Calvary

Typical Breton monuments representing scenes from Crucifixion and Passion

Guimiliau Calvary

Pleyben Calvary Calvary

The Last Supper

Calvary details

St-Thegonnec

The Blindfolded Christ

Guimiliau

Calvary detailsPleyben

Lampal-GuimiliauCalvary detailsCalvary details

Guimiliau

More Details

Sizun

Eve is born Adam, Eve and the Apple

Sleeping?..drunken?

Morlaix

Eglise St-Melaine15-th Century

Morlaix‘Viaduct’ for

Paris –Brest railway19-th Century

Baix de Morlaix Ile Callot

Road under water

Monts d’AreeRoc Trevezel

Windmills

BrestOceanopolis

Presqu’Ille de Crozon

Pointe de Penhir

Presqu’Ille de Crozon

Pointe de Penhir

Presqu’Ille de Crozon

Pointe de Penhir

Presqu’Ille de Crozon

Pointe de Penhir

Presqu’Ille de Crozon

Pointe de Penhir

Presqu’Ille de Crozon

Pointe de Penhir

Presqu’Ille de Crozon

Pointe des Espagnoles

Carnac

Megaliths

Menec: 1,170 menhirs

Kermario: 990 menhirs

Kerlescan: 540 menhirs

Carnac

Different stones

for different people

Carnac

Tumulus

St-Michel

Dolmen

Locmariquer

Carved stone inside the dolmen

Dolmen

Dolmen de Mane-Rethual

Walled town

Concarneau

Window detail

Concarneau Soup bowls with a touch2000 surnames available

Concarneau7 sins

Pont-Aven

Pont-Aven

Aven river

Watermill 2008

Watermill –by Gauguin 1894

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.

Fouesnant-les-Glenan

Our little house near Quimper

Kerdevot

One piece stone cow

trough

Gran’pa used to live there

…the cow lived here

Our little house near Quimper…..and our neighbours Kerdevot

Market DayKerdevot

Market Day …..with dance

Kerdevot

Main Square

Locronan

Stone houses

Locronan

Stone details

Locronan

Walls and windows

Locronan

DoorsLocronan

Small ‘Street business’

Locronan

Pointe-du-Raz

Pointe-du-Raz

Pointe-du-Raz

Pointe-du-Raz

Cathedrale St-PierreVannes

Vannes and his wife city ‘mascots’ from16-th C

Vannes The Old TownPlace Henri

Timber framed houses

Vannes

Timber detailsVannes

Post detailsVannes

Culinary detailsVannes

Stone houses and details

Vannes

Chateau de l’Hermine

Vannes

People of Vannes

Vannes

Golfe de Morbihan

Ile aux Moines

Ile aux Moines

Ile aux Moines

People on bikes