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April showers....⛈🌦🌂

I meant to post this last week...
Some of my favourite rain photos from our travels. None of us like it to rain but it happens.


Venice Italy

We went out to get wine bread cheese and then spent to day reading.

Guadalajara Mexico

It poured but then it let up for the rest of our visit to Tlaquapaque.

Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

We always have nice weather at the Cliffs, until this time when we took friends to Ireland on their first visit!

Gaudi's Parc Guell Barcelona Spain

And the weather didn't improve as the day went on!

Dijon France

So cold and miserable, only John ventured out.

Signs 2

Joining Tom at Signs2.
Wordless Wednesday Wordless Be There 2day


DO NOT DISTURB HOTEL SIGNS

Barcelona Spain 2019

In full dream...Dijon France 2019

Shhh I sleep...Paris France 2019

Monday Mural

I'm linking up at Monday Mural

May 2019 - Dijon France


If the ironwork throughout the Les Halles covered market in Dijon, France, reminds you of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, there is good reason. Gustave Eiffel, a native son of Dijon, designed the market in the 19th century. One of France’s largest and best-known markets, Les Halles is open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

This mural is opposite the market and was painted by Dominique Taraval in 1988.

inSPIREd Sunday

Sally and Beth host inSPIREd Sunday!  


May 2019 - Dijon France
These are all John's photos, I didn't go on this city tour, it was too cold and wet!

They did not get to visit inside the church.

This was our first stop after Paris.

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The Church of Notre-Dame of Dijon is a Roman Catholic church in Dijon. Considered a masterpiece of 13th-century Gothic architecture, it is situated at the heart of the preserved old centre of the city. It is located in Place Notre-Dame, near the Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy and opposite the rue Musette.

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Work on the church began around 1230.The church's decorations also include two symbols of Dijon: the jacquemart (bell-striking automaton) and the owl.

The clock with its jacquemart sits on a campanile rising from the base of the unbuilt south tower of the western façade. It has four metal automatons. Two of them, called Jacquemart and Jacqueline, sound the hours by striking a large bell with a hammer. The other two, their "children", Jacquelinet and Jacquelinette, strike the quarter hours, each on a small bell.

Several historians have noted the originality of the western façade, in that it is much more planar than usual in French Gothic architecture. It is in effect a screen, 28.6 metres high by 19.5 m wide and 6.2 m deep. There are three levels. The lowest has three large arcades forming the entry into a porch whose vaults are supported by two rows of pillars.
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The 51 gargoyles (or grotesques) on the western façade are dummies, in that they are decorative rather than drain spouts. There are, however, functional gargoyles on the lateral walls of the church and the walls of the apse.

According to the account of the monk Étienne de Bourbon, the original gargoyles were in place for only a short time: they were removed around 1240, following a fatal accident. A usurer was killed on the church forecourt as he was about to get married: a stone figure representing a usurer became detached and fell on him. His colleagues organised the destruction of all the dummy gargoyles on the façade, except for one at the upper right corner that survived until the 1960s, when it was replaced. Some 19th-century engravings do not show this gargoyle, but it can be seen in photos taken before 1880. The gargoyles at the sides and the back of the façade remain.

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The dummy gargoyles which today decorate the façade, and which represent human beings, animals and monsters, were made in 1880-1882, during the restoration of the church. According to the archives, they were the work of seven Parisian sculptors: Chapot, Corbel, Geoffroy, Lagoule (also known as Delagoule), Pascal, Thiébault and Tournier.

On the north side of the church is a chapel bordering on rue de la Chouette (Owl Street), a pedestrian way. A corner of a buttress of this chapel bears a sculpted bird thought to represent an owl. The ornament could possibly be the personal mark of a stonemason. It cannot be the signature of the original church's architect, as is sometimes suggested, for the chapel was built in the late 15th or early 16th century—several centuries after the original church. The owl became worn over the centuries because of a superstition that luck would accompany anyone who stroked the bird with their left hand while making a wish. As a result, the sculpture lacks detail.

This porch has three doors opening into the nave. The doorway openings and the tympana used to be decorated with statues and sculptures, but these were destroyed in January 1794.

Paris in July

Thyme for Tea is hosting "Paris in July".

For this theme I have been highlighting our Paris in May 2019 photos.

I "flipped" through the photos looking for inspiration for this week and saw how many food photos we had!

But I am going to start the menu in Dijon, not Paris!! We did a tour that started and ended in Paris.

Check list for dining in Dijon:

✅Begin with a kir
✅Borgogne wine with dinner

✅Eggs en Meurette  is a classic Burgundian dish of poached eggs in a rich and flavorful red wine sauce.

✅Snails

✅Beef bourguignon

✅Cheese plate for dessert.

Now back to Paris!



On arrival, croissants ✅on Avenue de Suffren, around the corner from our hotel.

Steak tartare ✅also on Avenue de Suffren.

Lamb.

Omelet!

Oeuf mayonnaise✅, a staple of Parisian bistros

Steak frites✅

Citron et miel crepes✅

Beaucoup de plats de fromage! ✅✅✅

Un autre steak et frites.

Moules!✅

In Sisteron, a skinny baguette✅, spread lightly with butter and layered with thinly sliced ham, an iconic French sandwich, sold in lunch restaurants, by street vendors, available everywhere. DELICIOUS!

French Riviera - more moules!

Traditional lamb stew in Monte Carlo.

It appears we ate well in Carcasonne!

This was our meal in the hotel, part of the tour, mushroom and walnut salad.

Pork stew

Poached pear in wine.

 A delicious lunch in Carcasonne in sunshine!

Goat cheese salad.

 John's sausage and fries and my cassoulet.
Here is a recipe for cassoulet, which is basically pork sausage, duck leg and beans. Another ✅

Another included hotel dinner in Lourdes.

Duck leg.

Group dinner in a bistro in Bordeaux.

Chicken with mushroom sauce.

Pineapple sorbet.

Optional countryside dinner in Bordeaux.

Quiche

Canelés, small, sponge-cake-like confections, are a speciality of Bordeaux. It is said that they were invented to make use of the leftover egg yolks at a time when egg whites were used to filter wine.

A definite highlight for me was lunch in Bordeaux at Bar y Vin.

Delicious duck pate✅ with a raisin bread.

Merlot salt.

A selection of chocolates for dessert.

I think we've covered the Cookbook of French Cuisine!!!

‎À votre santé!