France Out-takes, 2015, II

Continuing the amazing and amusing...

Interesting house/porches near Fontaine-Henry

Meteo on the street in Caen

Lawn ornaments near Utah Beach

Message on a German gun emplacement: "Who changes the
children, changes the world"

Gun battery in Cherboug: Sic transit, Gloria

Normandie humor

One sees rather few home-built rigs in France...here's one

Your bones are being evicted from this cemetery

So you've pulled into a parking lot at a scenic overlook and are
admiring the sights when up rides a bicycliste/asshole to
exercise his male rights just outside your front windshield...

Medieval pizza maker in Vitre

French hot dog

Ingredients for Kouign Aman...Food of Satan

What happens when you fall asleep reading

Sic transit, Gloria

Clock tower in Amiens

Belt and suspenders approach

France Out-takes, 2015, I

More amazing, amusing pix from France, 2015...

You find defibrillators right out on the street
here and there

American culture is everywhere; well, you
don't see much light beer, our major contribution
to cuisine

On the lawn of a monument, some kind soul has placed plastic
flowers on all of the dog poop mounds

In Deauville, a pizza vending machine; in
operation only during high season

Interesting cafe table

In case you've ever wondered what 35E of dog poop looks like

In a barber shop in Fecamp...a large model of the Bismarck/
Tirpitz

Only cupcake shop we saw still in business

Hazards of harbor fishing

59 different colors

Camping with rabbits in Honfleur

Municipal signage in Deauville; possible interpretations...
no male topless dancing, no topless males, no topless male
singing and dancing...

Baba in Dives...love the little syringes of rum

Double-decker chair in Caen church

Sort of

Cool chair covers

No smoking apartment in St. Malo

Helluva party

And you think you're reno was bad...

The French abhor empty space and will fill it with nearly
anything and call it sculpture

Doullens And St. Pierre's

We stopped on the way from Amiens to Lille at the pretty and lively little town of Doullens. The aire de camping-cars there only has four places, but it is clean and quiet and close to everything. On one of my customary reconnaissance walks, I noticed the abandoned church of St. Pierre. If you're looking for an authentic 13th century Gothic fixer-upper church that it is really in relatively good shape, considering, this may be for you.

St. Pierre's parish church, apparently deconsecrated

But not forgotten, at least by the monuments commission

The roof appears largely intact, at least over the main arcade

Building a porch and entrance may be something of a challenge;
plus there are hundreds of pigeons to relocate...but hey, how many
people do you know who have renovated a 13th century Gothic?
PS: the sign said 13th century, but it struck me as rather more
Romanesque...no pointy things in any of the windows or portals...

Amiens Cathedral, 2015

We visited Amiens Cathedral in 2013, and I did four posts on it. Among Gothic cathedrals, it's one of the three or four best and most famous, and of course we wanted to see it again on our return drive. I have reviewed my four previous posts...

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/05/amiens-1.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/05/amiens-2.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/05/amiens-sculpture.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/05/amiens-out-takes.html

and promise not to do very many duplicate pix nor repeat bad jokes here.

"That's it! I've had it! No more pleading or interceding!"

"Yeah, so how far did you walk with your severed
head?"

The Maze, in full glory

Nice carving in the choir

Thus

Blind triforia (in case you were wondering)

"I guess this will be your last cathedral for a while..."

Abbey Church Of St. Ouen, 2

More pix from Rouen's 14th century abbey church of St. Ouen...

Chancel

Chancel ceiling

Elevation, windows and light

A sampling of the windows, mostly saints and
biblical figures

Thus

Thus

In the chevet

One of the big roses

More

More

And another

Limestone blocks, loaded with flint...Normandy

In the park outside, a statue of the Viking Rollo, the original
Duke of Normandy

A few feet away, a huge runestone, a gift from the people of Copenhagen to the
people of Rouen; Viking solidarity