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Hey everyone, after a two week break of pretty much everything going on online, because I went on a holiday to France with my family, I already planned to pause a lot of my online activities to find out at our destination it was very hard to do anything with our phones, which isn't a bad thing at all - back to the old life, playing games, reading books and spend time together.
Lately I've seen a lot of WorldMappin posts, and with still a week left before I have to work, and the Splinterlands posts are in the second half of the week, I figured it would be a nice comeback to start with a WorldMappin post myself, my first ever!
Our final destination was Plonevez-Porzay in Brittany - France, a total distance of 1050 kilometer with our car, when I was younger and we didn't had any kids, I used to do distances like these in one go but now I'm older, I like to do things a little bit easier, so on the first day we did 550 kilometer, and we booked a room at a B&B Hotel in Harfleur, France.
Most of these hotels we visited are close to the highway in a not particularly pretty location but this time when we took the exit from the highway on to the roundabout leading to our hotel, we were pleasantly surprised by a nice statue and a very pretty cathedral on the background!
Since I was driving at that time, I took this picture from Google Street View, the hotel behind the boulangerie (a bakery in French) is the one we stayed in.
The rest of the pictures in this post are my own.
The narrow streets reminds me of the cute villages in Italy and when we crossed the corner behind the dumpsters, we could see the cathedral's tower completely and not only its top.
This was the first tower we saw in this style, but we saw many more, even 450 kilometers further away it still was the same style due to the Breton history this part of France has.
A little bit later, we crossed a bridge where I could take this very pretty picture that could be used on a post card, I really like the reflection in the water. 🙂
A little bit of history...
Harfleur was once called the “Sovereign port of Normandy and key to the kingdom of France.” From the 9th to the 16th century, it was the main port of Normandy. Over time, the Seine River slowly filled with silt, and Harfleur lost its importance. This medieval town, fortified in the 14th century, still keeps many traces of its proud history. You can see it in the charming half-timbered houses along the Lézarde River, which now flows into the Tancarville Canal.
This is what I really like about Europe, compared to other places in the world like the U.S because there is so much interesting history and pretty buildings everywhere, the picture below is one of those half timbered houses.
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