Friday, 15 July 2016

Giverny, Cocherel and Ouistreham

This week's blog is a miscellany.

Last week I posted images from the gardens of Claude Monet at Giverny.  When I left the gardens I had lunch in the village before taking photographs there.

I have driven many times between Évreux and Giverny and almost invariably have passed through a delightful little village called Cocherel.  It is situated on the banks of the river Eure (after which the Department is named).  This year I decided to hunt out somewhere to park there and take some photographs.

The next day I captured some images at the ferry terminal at Ouistreham, Calvados, as I waited for my ferry to set sail for Portsmouth, England.

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Giverny


After the rain



Where to?

The Monet family grave

Giverny church


The war memorial

The church


Roadside colour

View towards the Seine



More roadside colour





Cocherel


R. Eure

Former mill



Former mill house

Downstream from the mill

Zzzz

River bridge

Upstream

The old mill house


Original dwelling




Ouistreham


The town

'Sword Beach' (D-Day landings)

The town

The beach

Entrance of Caen canal


Mouth of R. Orne

Old town


Quayside and entrance to the canal


Some technical bits (starboard)

(port)

On our way

Returning fishing boat




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