{"id":641,"date":"2009-04-24T08:13:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T12:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2022-01-12T08:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T13:25:58","slug":"day-55-off-to-normandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/day-55-off-to-normandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 55&#8211;Off to Normandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is more silliness going on here. Because of a prohibition against smoking in advertising, the ads for a Jacques Tati retrospective have had to put little windmills\/flowers (I can&#8217;t tell which) on the Tati character, Monsieur Hulot&#8217;s pipe. Hulot is an earlier version of silent Mr. Bean. I never liked either,\u00a0<em>franchement<\/em>, but it&#8217;s caused a stir among the arts community and politicians.<\/p>\n<p>After class, we took off for Normandy, about a two+ hour drive northwest of here for the weekend. On the way in, we caught a glimpse of the gorgeous Normandy bridge, essentially connecting Honfleur, where we stayed, to Le Havre, to the north. More about this on Sunday.The zany, but brilliant\u00a0Erik Satie was born in Honfleur.<\/p>\n<p>A lovely harbour and quaint little houses but the area is becoming more gastronomically alive than had been the case. We certainly experienced that.<\/p>\n<p>We had\u00a0<em>haute cuisine\u00a0<\/em>at Le Ferme Saint-Simeon, rue Adolphe Marais,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fermesaintsimeon.fr\/\">www.fermesaintsimeon.fr<\/a>.\u00a0(My friend, JIL and I dined there about 10 years ago.) Our only complaint was that the\u00a0<em>sommelier\u00a0<\/em>was beyond snotty.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-641 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/day-55-off-to-normandy\/157_668\/'><img width=\"190\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/157_668-190x140.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-643\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-643'>\n\t\t\t\tLe Manoir de Butin.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/day-55-off-to-normandy\/157_669\/'><img width=\"190\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/157_669-190x140.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-644\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-644'>\n\t\t\t\tHonfleur harbour.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/day-55-off-to-normandy\/157_670\/'><img width=\"190\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/157_670-190x140.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-645\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-645'>\n\t\t\t\tErik Satie&#8217;s home.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/day-55-off-to-normandy\/157_671\/'><img width=\"190\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/157_671-190x140.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-647\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-647'>\n\t\t\t\tLe Ferme Saint-Simeon.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/day-55-off-to-normandy\/157_672\/'><img width=\"190\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/157_672-190x140.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-648\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-648'>\n\t\t\t\tLeaving Honfleur after dinner.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is more silliness going on here. Because of a prohibition against smoking in advertising, the ads for a Jacques Tati retrospective have had to put little windmills\/flowers (I can&#8217;t tell which) on the Tati character, Monsieur Hulot&#8217;s pipe. Hulot is an earlier version of silent Mr. Bean. I never liked either,\u00a0franchement, but it&#8217;s caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}