Getting Away to the Country

We headed to Giverny today - the village / town that Claude Monet lived in.  It was a welcome change of pace from the city and the crowds at all the sites.  The pace was much slower and thus easier.  The crushes of people have been taxing.  The kids are off school for 2 weeks starting on around Easter, so there seem to be a number of European tourists out and about because of the kiddos.

I read Viktor E. Frankl's, Man's Search for Meaning, again as we traveled today as we had more time in the train.  It's a hearting story of humans behavior under pressure during the Holocaust and what we are capable of doing to one another.  It was a strange dichotomy against the beauty of Monet's gardens.

I don't have much to report today - I'll leave it to the pictures.  The long and short of it, Giverny was most definitely worth the effort to get there.

Most of these are from Giverny unless otherwise noted.

Beautiful chickens / roosters wandering around an area of the garden.

Waterlily pond that you see so many of Monet's paintings of

There was a bamboo garden that was part of the gardens.  I didn't even know you could grow bamboo in these areas. 

Tour boat of people going through Paris.  The crowds on the banks usually start screaming and so do the people on the boat.  It turns into quite a party.

View from Sacre-Coeur

View from Sacre-Coeur

View from Sacre-Coeur

View of Sacre-Coeur