Normandy Strawberries 🍓 called ‘Favorie’

 

When you book your train ticket 🎟️ online, 

it’s not a bad idea to print it out in the station using the code, if you worry about losing your iPad or needing to recharge etc.

Yesterday I went back 

To Trouville/Deauville 

For more of those delish Strawberries 🍓 called ‘Favorie’

Fortunately the guy is at the Deauville marché on Saturdays. 🤸‍♂️

In fact he will have berries 🍓 into OCTOBER!! 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️

So you know where I’ll be heading every weekend ☺️ ❤️🍓

I can think of a lot worse places to go…

After eating a bunch of berries and a quickie bagnat tuna sandwich 🥪 I headed for the beach 🏖️ 

I had been warming up 

On the train.

The colors of the cabanas are so yummy

I sat down on the boardwalk, took off my shoes, put my feet 🦶 in the sand and got doodling.  

The weather was sunny 🌞 and breezy. Perfect 👍 

After a bit I headed along the quai to catch the little boat 🚤

Called, le Bac de Deauville that takes you over to Trouville (1,80€) in like 3 minutes and saves walking back to the train station and over the bridge.

In Trouville, first things first. I went looking for the wonderful Camembert ice cream,

I had had 2 years ago. “Yes, we had it 2 years ago…but no more”. I settled for Black sesame but it wasn’t the same. When in Normandy you must eat Camembert something or other.

Heartbroken 💔 I went to browse the seafood 🦞 

At the Marché de Poissoniere. 

Gorgeous but I was not hungry 🤷🏻‍♀️ 

And no must-have Normandy moules either (in the orange pots.

Instead I trudged up the hill to le Musée Villa Montebello to look at old paintings of fisherman and fishing boats. There is a big Fete de la Mer next weekend celebrating the fishing boats.

Or watch an amusing video on the history of bathing at Trouville where you can snooze or giggle 🤭 

Finally down to the Trouville beach 🏖️

And the boardwalk where I stopped 

For the essential moule marinière (17€) at Chez Péppy’s, one of the million places on the boardwalk but the view was sensational 👍 One more ice cream cone 🍦 and I dragged myself to the train home and slept the whole way 😴

I’m going back next Saturday for more berries 🍓 and beach painting.

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