Thursday, April 26, 2012

Bye bye Normandy... for now !

We left Normandy this morning, after 10 days at Lucile and Nicolas' farm. It went really fast and despite the pretty bad weather, we had a blast. We learnt a lot about goats, cows, cheese and we (mostly me) fell in love with goats, which are really friendly and cuddly animals with a lot of character, basically a very big cat. I had to keep myself from sticking one in my backpack to take home with me. Especially my little Croquette, which is a 2 month old goat that had a problem with her back legs and can't walk very well, and falls often (the fact that she cannot stand up when she falls makes it even more of a problem). So we had to take special care of her and we grew very attached to her (as well as most of the 86 other goats - some of them have very bad characters though...). We also spent a great day visiting the region, mostly Honfleur - old town with a lot of typical Normandy houses and Deauville - posh seaside resort town for parisians.
We are now back in Paris and heading to Rambouillet tomorrow for a couple of my friends' wedding. Then we'll spend 2 weeks in Paris before going back to Normandy to another wwoofing farm !

milking the goats

Honfleur - the harbor

Honfleur - the town center

Windy day on Deauville beach

Beautiful Deauville mansions on the seaside

Our next house !

Goats games

Hope - the calf

Goats games

Croquette

Hard work...

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