I love gardens and gardening so
when we were planning our September trip to Normandy and Brittany, I was happy
to see that Monet’s Garden in Giverny could easily be made part of our route to
Bayou. In August I had gone with Mom to the recreation of Monet’s Garden in the
Conservatory at the New York Botanical Gardens http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/monet/index.php
and now it's September and we're in the original.
Saturday morning we took the
hotel shuttle over to the Europcar Rental office at the airport picked up our
rental, entered Giverny into the GPS and off we went. Getting out of the airport and onto
the road gave us the usual challenges, but once out of the Paris traffic we
found it an easy ride.
I had been told by a French
colleague to make sure to arrive early that Monet’s Gardens are always
crowded. It’s a little more than an hour from Paris, and popular for day
trips as well as with people on their way from and to the Coast on the
weekends. We arrived about 11am, parking was easy and free. We paid our 5 Euro
entrance fee and walked right in to a Monet painting.
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