Monthly Archives: June 2018

We arrived in the port city of Le Havre at 04:30 Sunday (if the scheduled arrival time printed on the day’s activities sheet was accurate) and would remain docked there for two full days. Le Havre is at the mouth …

Enough with the cheese, tell me about the booze. Like the A o C cheeses, the five beverages of Normandy that have received that designation are closely related. They are: Calvados, Calvados Pays d’Auge, Calvados Domfrontais, Pays d’Auge, and Pommeau …

When we’d had our fill of the museum, we decided we’d seen enough for the day and would simply have a wander about the area without straying too far because we knew we had another gastronomic treat waiting for us …

The previous post ended with our time at the Aître Saint-Maclou and my rant about tour guides. We’d seen one of the tetrad of Late or Flamboyant Gothic style buildings. Now we’re on our way to the second – likely …

A brief Danse-Macabre. Nearly abutting l’Église Saint-Maclou you can find the euphemistically named Aître Saint-Maclou. A more precise name would be Ossuaire Saint-Maclou or the Saint Maclou Ossuary. There are a few reasons for this linguistic diversion. Derived from the …