Le Boulay-Morin to Giverny

Today was a wonderful day. We started out by going for a walk in the grounds at Chateau du Boulay-Morin.

As we were checking out the owner insisted we needed to have a cup of coffee. He told Duke “You can’t drive without coffee!” So we had coffee and chatted a bit. He told us that if he was American he would have voted for Trump. But now no! He said “Trump has made America a 0!”

After leaving the Chateau we went into Evreux, the town where we had dinner last night, and had croissants and another coffee at the Boulangerie.

We got to Giverny too early to check in so we strolled around a bit and bought some souvenirs. Then we had a picnic lunch in the garden of the Museum of Impressionism.

About 2:00 we checked in to Sous La Glycine. This B&B has one room in the basement. It’s perfect, cute and very comfortable. We are right on Rue Claude Monet just down the street from Monet’s house and garden.

Monet’s garden and house close at 6:00. A couple of weeks ago we bought advance tickets for 4:30. It was perfect. While we were there the crowds got smaller and smaller. And the gardens!! Oh my goodness they are wonderful! The colors, the light, the artistry. It was fantastic!

We took our time wandering through the gardens. It was surprising how many empty park benches we found. We had to check out each of them.

The things that surprised us about Giverny was how untoutisty it seemed, in spite of the massive crowds. And when we walked to dinner after everything was closed the streets were empty.

As I said at the beginning it was a practically perfect day. Tomorrow we return the car at the airport in Paris and fly home.