Thursday, September 15, 2011

Honfleur, la mer, et les amoureux

h o n f l e u r i n t h e r a i n

La mer. The seashore. The Coast Of Normandy. A little French fishing village. Those are phrases that have enticed me ever since I was a child. And the next stop on our trip, the tiny coastal village of Honfleur, did not disappoint us. It poured with rain while we were there, but, really, that only added to the charm.

o u r b r o t h e r b o b a n d h i s n e w u m b r e l l a

We ducked into a charming bookstore, and I could have stayed there all day looking at gorgeous books like this, the French version of

The New 18th Century Home

[which I bought in English, as soon as I got home. But not with this pretty cover:(]

haha! I'm looking at this picture now and seeing the book under it:"365 Games to play on the Toilet!" I did NOT buy that book!! But it does sound intriguing... :))

The rain did let up, eventually.

As we walked around the tiny bay I spied the sweetest couple, young lovers,les amoureux, sharing a delicious concoction of cream and fruit.

"Would you mind If I took your picture". I asked, in my best tourist Franglish. [Something like "Bonjour. Voulez vous permettez moi por takee votre picture, s'il vous plais?"

And, sweet things that they were,not only did they let me take their picture, in minutes we were playing iPhone games and becoming Facebook buddies. In fact, the young man is using this very photo as his Fb profile picture right now!

Off to the next sweet seaside town of Trouville. While it rained too hard to entice us to get out of the car at Deauville, it was quite lovely in Trouville. Wonderful shops there!

I would have loved to have taken everything in this shop home to Everafter Farm. [Except for that adorable little French boy. I don't think his maman would part with him.] Don't you just love that screen?

There was a branch of the wonderful Parisian store, MERCI,

And across the way from that shop there was an enchanting window display. No store, actually. Just this romantic scene.