Wednesday 22 July 2020

Calvados country

Another leisurely drive has taken us to Cormeilles in the heart of Calvados country, though it was more wheat than apples that we saw.

Over the Seine at Pont du Brotonne

French road workers moving dirt from the side of the road to... the side of the road. Quite spooky at the time.


J's shopping

My shopping

Our pleasant park-up, though subject to the occasional whiff from the poo-ponds nearby.

Place du General de Gaulle

Got to call it something!

Cormeilles has two claims to fame: a giant Calvados distillery and a church with a sloping floor. Thinking maybe the latter is a product of the former we had to check the church out. It does in fact have a pronounced slope, and I'll wager many a choirboy got a clipped ear for rolling marbles down it.



I like the lighting in J's shot here.


We had a glass of regional Calvados for an after dinner digestif - not cheap and too rawly (is that a word?) alcoholic for me.



I forgot to mention this from Rouen:

Best I can make out, the car carrier came around the corner and rear-ended another car, shoving it into a tree. With nowhere else to go it tried to climb on to the back of the truck but the other car wouldn't let it.

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