SERENDIPITY

And now we are in Giverny……drinking the most expensive cup of tea so far - and we haven’t got to Pairs yet! - and about to see the Impressionist Museum-we will leave the gardens for tomorrow.

  Alan has piped up with  a comment “”Maybe I should become a waiter now that I speak  French” -does that mean we are moving to France-?

We have found our stay in France truly memorable (as it was in Spain and Italy and Israel!) oh and we were also in Beijing!!  We have visited areas that were new to us and met the most fabulous friendly French and only a very few very unfriendly ones!  This our final night in the country (countryside that is, not France!)-in a little village 10km from Giverny in a Chambre d”Hote “Les jardins du Val” (it will be in the 2012 edition of Maison d‘hotes de caracetere) -  highly recommended - just to be taken round the garden by the proud owner., a landscape designer and tree seller.- a most charming man who is passionate about his work and his surroundings. We have the Isle De France/Normandie border running through the bottom of the garden-it’s a stream -  and the peace and greeness of this magical place,   tranquillity personified.  Gosh, this is getting a bit too flowery! Unreal how different last night’s accom is to tonight’s-last night we were also at a Chambre d’Hote on a wheat farm 15min from Chartres-also most delightful place and people!

When I started out, the blog was going to be about the food we encountered -hence the name- BUT -  Alan says it should rather have been called Serendipity - for us it has been like that, stumbling on wonderful things and even with the ups and downs we have encountered.  




For some reason, only known to computr buffs, I cannot add images - have been on to google and help and tried lots of other things-so it seems only writing from now on!