March 21st – 29th, 2011
Mont Saint Michel
We departed on March 20th to the town of Rouen, Normandy for five days of French and some “faire de tourism”. Beautiful town and I had fun revisiting the idea of learning French. It was somewhat tougher for Alissa however as she had never tried to learn a language before. However she enjoyed picking up words and phrases and we were able to dramatically improve our capabilities by the end of the week. On the Friday night this led to the ultimate test – an invite for dinner on Saturday night – only french spoken. Actually it was a lot of fun as per the post below.
Normandy is also the home of William the Conqueror (1066 and all that) as well as all sorts of fantastic foods, beverages and historical stuff etc, such as the Mont Saint-Michel, pictured above, the home of many enormous gothic cathedrals, the Bayeaux Tapestry and the famous D-Day beaches. It is truly well worth a visit. We visited month Saint Michel and the Bayeaux tapestry which is 70metres long. If so inclined you can actually download a jpg of it from the wiki page linked above and scroll along the story – although, trust me, the commentary is what really makes it jump out. We’re leaving the beaches for another visit as they’re too much to see in one day.
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