I enjoyed very much this excursion in Normandy: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the clichés about Normandy ( the cartoonist Sylvain Guichard- his drawings and wordplays about the climate, the cows or the the rivalry between Bretons and Normands, Laurence Guilleux alias Yvette Flac-the comic travel through Normandy), the oysters of the Chausey islands (the journalist Dominique Hutin and the oyster farmer Alban, the oyester farm, the moment of tasting cooked oysters with friends), the cheeses of Normandy ( the Camembert created in 1791 in the village of Camembert, Patrick Mercier and his organic farm in Champsecret, the unique bio Camembert, Cassandre Michel and the making of the tomme de Grandouet, the chef Alain Depoix and the "plateau de 32 fromages" at the Logis dr Brionne and the meeting of the "tyrosémiophiles"-cheese labels collector), the Abbey of Saint Wandrille ( the benectine monks and their new economic activity-the brewery-), the cider and calvados production (Constance Hyest and the making of apple cider brandy, the traveling distiller Vincent Dick and the use of new aromas in the apple cider brandy, the cattle breeder François-Xavier Craquelin and the use of apple cider-the example of the Kobe beefmeat-, the mixologistMargot LeCarpentier and the renewal of the caldavos in the cocktail making)and the flax of Normandy (the flax producer Antoine Vandecandelaere-the showing of the flax fields and the flax workshop-, Doudeville-the capital of the flax-, the fasion show with flax dresses and the cooking recipes with linseed-the risotto with flax seed or the pork filled with flax seeds).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme Pitorin with the bike tour organizer Hugo Guillochin, with the baker Jean-François Ottier, with the snails producer Victor Perrin and his wife Stéphanie, with the chef Johan Thyriot, with the ceramist Dominique Kay-Mouat, with the ceramist Gaëtan, with the cooper Valéry Desfrieches and his father Léon, with the Father Pascal Marie, the fisherman Alexis Langin and his son Raphaël at Honfleur; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.