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France May 2019 The Watermill part 3

May 22, 2019May 21, 2019Posted in Adventures, France, Fuji, Fujifilm X100F, landscape, nature, Normandy, photography, Travel, UncategorizedTagged fraggle, France, Fuji XT-1, landscape, nature, Normandy, photography, The Watermill, travel52 Comments

For our final visit to the watermill, I’ll show you some of the interesting things I found walking around the grounds with my camera.

In one of the sheds

Yes that was a surprise, here’s a few details of it

There was another one in a lock up, but that still worked apparently. Had a bar in it too!

My favourite part was the Water feature.

So that brings me to the end of showing you around the watermill, though if you were interested there’s plenty more to see in the full album (including rusty stuff embedded in ivy and cat pictures) in the full album HERE

All pictures embiggenable with a clickety click.

Oh and finally, it was quite cold in the evenings, and Phil had to pull out his boy scout skills!

France ~ May 2019 ~ The Watermill ~ part 2

May 18, 2019May 18, 2019Posted in Adventures, animals, cats, France, Fuji, Fujifilm X100F, Normandy, photography, TravelTagged adventure, Cat, fraggle, France, Fujifilm X100F, nature, Normandy, photography, The Watermill, travel43 Comments

Part 1 HERE

The inside of the watermill was very cozy, so I took a few shots 🙂 Nicola had left us some nibbles and cider for when we arrived.

A cool kitchen

and some natty eggcups in the cupboard!

The snug where we sat to watch DVD’s in the evening

The bathroom and our bedroom had views out into the garden

Around the outside of the mill was lovely too

And we made new friends

Marmalade would come for tickles as long as we were outside

and Fatcat stomped indoors whenever we were there and sat on Phils knee at night 🙂

That will do for now, still more grounds to explore with an amazing water feature to show you, so stay tooned!

France – May 2019 – The Watermill Part 1

May 16, 2019Posted in Adventures, France, Fuji, Fujifilm X100F, landscape, Normandy, photography, Travel, UncategorizedTagged adventure, fraggle, France, fujiX100f, landscape, May2019, Normandy, photography, Watermill49 Comments

I’ve been neglecting the Universe Blog whilst doing my 365 on The Other Place and going on holiday, so thought I’d get back to it. Last week we travelled to Normandy, France for a few days visiting historical sites. But before we hop off on a visit I’m going to show you around where we stayed. The place we stayed is called La Houssain, it’s tiny, but in it there’s an old watermill, built in the 1700’s and added to in the 18’s.

Should have moved the car but never mind. A river runs along side it (of course- it’s hard to be a watermill without water 🙂 )

The mill is nestled in woodlands and forest, and the soundtrack to life is of countless birdsongs, the breeze in the trees and the flow of the nearby river. An escape from the madding crowd, where peace and nature surround and seduce you.

There is an old building on site that once was a bakers oven, the people in the surrounding area brought their wheat to the mill to be ground, and then took it to the oven to be baked. It was our view from the front door.

Nicola, the owner, uses it to store wood for the range fire in the mill.

Nicola keeps a few sheep on her land too

Next time we’ll have a look at some of the interesting garden and water features! 🙂

Stay tooned!

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