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NormandieFoodie is a business run by Australian Nola Pontifex, from bed and breakfast La Fromentale
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16/11/2024

Time to say au revoir France until March of 2025. What a time it's been. The last few days in Paris a treat!
Lunch at the Australian cafe Hardware Societe up near Sacre Coeur, a visit to Bon Marche and great food as well. Hotel near Gare St Lazare the perfect place to stay. And the start of the Christmas markets out at La Defence. The buses and Metro got a big work out!

14/11/2024

Well my last lot of visitors are long gone and back at work in Queensland, but not too late to reflect on our wonderful days in Honfleur, at Monet's Garden and in Reims.

21/10/2024

Our next day was a biggy! Starting with early market at Avranches with the locals, eating fresh raspberries from the punnet and fruit and nut bread for breakfast, poultry stalls with dressed guinea fowl, ducks, rabbits and chooks, lots of dairy, boucheries and organic breads. Chefs heaven!
Then on to Cancale for lunch at La Mere Champlain and finally Chateau Cockerel for a tour and a tasting. Duck leftovers for dinner!

19/10/2024

A big day 2 of visiting the village of St Sever, the dairy at Coupigny, lunch at Le Pussoir, collection from the Depot Vente of a new dining table and the ultimate, the chefs in the kitchen! Local ingredients of freshly dressed duck from a friend's farm, foraged veg from the verger in town and my friend Natacha's farm, great champagne and wine and very good friends. And amongst that we watched the re-tinning of NormandieFoodie's copper saucepan at the Atelier de Cuves

11/10/2024

Yesterday was a huge day of travelling to Paris by train, meeting my new group and having lunch at the famous Bofinger in the Bastille and returing to Villedieu-les-Poêles in the dark again by train.
Our return was delayed by over an hour to 9.30pm because of an accident with an animal with another train.
The group bonded with much hilarity during the wait.
A very late diner of a bowl of soup and some magnificent Normandie camembert finished ogg the day.

27/09/2024

It's not all about food on a NormandieFoodie tour! At Granville we had some fashion at the Christian Dior Museum. The next day for Cath and Geoff a day out at Mont St Michel and today Cancale.

23/09/2024

They said it would rain today but not one drop whilst we were out and about in Pont d'Ouilly, Beauvron en Auge and Honfleur today. A long day but well worth the travel.

12/09/2024

Having fun with this lot! On the road again!

03/09/2024

So time to update you on NormandieFoodie happenings.

Back in France a little earlier than usual sharing some time with friends in the Champagne region, Paris for the Paralympics and then back at La Fromentale.
We are just a little worn out!

Next week NormandieFoodie welcomes a couple from Mount Gambier SA, another from Lincolnshire UK and then a francophile from Brisbane and her partner.

31/05/2024

Our travelling week has ended with the Rocky group heading their separate ways. Our last days were spent in Cancale, Honfleur, Villers Bretonneux, Lille and a drop off in Paris. A whale of a time had by all! Nola Pontifex Denise Mill

24/05/2024

On the road again! NormandieFoodie sharing the local lifestyle with a Rockhampton group. This time 8 in the party and what a time we are having!
Nola Pontifex

03/05/2024

NormandieFoodie 's Anzac Tour concluded yesterday with Lesley and Gordon heading back to Paris by train.
Since picking them up in Amiens we have had 11 days packed with new experiences.
After heading back to La Fromental through Arras to honour a fallen soldier from Rockhampton, then Naours to Honfleur we have visited Bayeux, Arromanches and the Landing Beaches, Mont St Michel and a quick whip around Saint Sever the local village.
There was never a dull moment! Nola Pontifex Lesley N Gordie

28/04/2024

Friday to Sunday we've stayed in Ypres. Friday we visited Poperinge and went to the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery to find both Lesley and Gordon's great uncles in the same cemetery. Lesley N Gordie
We discovered Talbot House in Poperinge, a rest house for Brits and Aussies alike.
Then out to Passchendale to a very worthwhile museum giving us the perspective of trenches and living underground.
A revisit to the Menin Gate and a meeting with Johan Moors of the Last Post Association ended another long day.

27/04/2024

Anzac Day was huge starting with a 2.30am shuttle to Villers Bretonneux from Amiens. It was a great service as usual with the Minister for Veteran Affairs Matt Keogh and Mme Ambassador of Australia to France Gillian Bird attending. We met up with John Phelan and his Battlefields Cycling group briefly.
Followed by a trip to Bailleul on the border with Belgium to pay hommage to Great Uncle Maurice Mayfield brother to Lloyd Mayfield.
We arrived in time to settle into our apartment and to attend the Menin Gate service.

26/04/2024

More discoveries around Villers Bretonneux. The massive memorial at Pozieres, the British Thiepval arches and the town of Albert all woven into the ANZAC history. Lesley N Gordie

24/04/2024

Our first day on tour with NormandieFoodie was based around Villers Bretonneux in preparation for Thursday's Dawn service. NormandieFoodie

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Facebook drives you mad sometimes! Apparently you are no longer able to mix photos and videos in your posts, maybe as of this afternoon! So after much frustration here is the video of the band playing on Rue Pasteur on Saturday night in Paris while we watched the Rugby World Cup match on the big screen.

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#normandiefoodie #ilovefrance #holidaysinnormandie The two weeks that were with Tthe Photographer and the Foodie.

One of NormandieFoodie's guests this week is a non- Facebook person and so unable to publish a review of her week's stay. Leanne of Tasmania has given me permission to do this on her behalf from the survey she delightfully filled out before she left. Many thanks Leanne. What rating of comfort out of 10 would you give your room, with 1 being lowest and 10 the highest? 10. I stayed in the attic which is beautifully furnished and has a really comfortable bed. The shower is hot and has fabulous pressure and there is everything needed. The room is especially spacious. Was the tour up to your expectations? Nola's local knowledge, warm hospitality and readiness for anything (we changed our itinerary "on the hop" which didn't faze her at all) meant that our tour so exceeded our expectations we can't wait to come back and do all the things we couldn't fit in. Which was your best 'wow' moment? This is so difficult - there were so many - the harp concert at the 12th century abbey on dusk; the first glimpse of Mont St Michel on the horizon; the wildflowers when we walked the country lanes; the welcome at Nola's local bar; ALL the musical discoveries on our tour.

One of the lovely surprises on our visit to the village of Genets near Avranches yesterday was the town band. A wonderful mix of young players learning music, older folks and those in between. There were a few missed notes and dubious sounds but so enjoyable. This is what French villages and a locals experience can be!