We are in France! Bob is working here and I am tagging along. We flew into Paris but we drove 2.5 hours north and are very near Normandy. Our hotel is a converted hunting lodge built in 1889. It's on a beautiful estate with golf, hunting, a pool and forest.
I have a car until we leave France and today I went on an adventure. Thank goodness for the GPS! Once I mastered driving the Citron Hybred Picasso and spent 15 minutes understanding the map on my GPS I was good to go.
My first stop was in the closest town, Argentan. I went to the lace museum of the Benedictine nuns. It was very educational. The lace is only sold online and very expensive. The gardens of the museum were laid out in lace like patterns and were even better than the museum!
My next stop was the town of Alençon. This town is the birth and burial place of St Therese. I took a self guided walking tour about little Therese Martin and her devout family. As a side note, the woman at my hotel spoke only a little English and I speak only a little French. She gave me lots of instructions and a map ouitlining the walking path with points of interest. I understood that I was taking a walking tour to learn about lace and see a pretty church. It was so much more! First of all, Alençon is a beautiful city with tons of shopping. The cathedral was huge and had stained glass that was painstakingly removed and secured during WWII so it could be saved from the bombings during the war. The tour about St Therese showed where she was born, baptized and buried plus gave details about her huge family and devoted parents. Her mother was an award winning lace maker and employed 15 women in her lacemaking business.
Here are are few pictures from the day.
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