PARIS
When you would like to buy a porcelain of LIMOGES,a kitchenware or a sportswear,it is better to go the department store of Galeries Lafayette (metro HARVRE-CAUMARTIN)than look around other special shops. The department store stocks thausands of goods ,so you can save time. Doun the basement floor you can find a tax free bureau for foreigner. Porcerans and kitchenwares are sold in the center building . Sportswares are the side building.If you are hungry ,a sandwith house is found at the street bitween those two buildings.I recommend to you a chiken one.It is nice to taste and is cheep.Wising eat much vegetables and other dishes,go upper floor of the department store. Then,one can take a favorite dish ,pay its count and bring it freely on a table.To drink a coffee you must take a littre complex way.Buy the special coin and throw it into the coffeemaking macine,then you can get a cup of coffee.When you want to eat a cines dinner,you should choose a clean beautiful cinese restaurant,because the cost of dish is rather cheeper than western one. If you happen to enter a dirty cinese restaurant,youmust suffer from hot instatnoodle saled in a super market but must pay a much money,because you are in the restaurant.My favorit restaurant is La Cantin des Gourmets(7em Arrondissements.Metro RUE DU BAC).The sheff is from Hotel NEGRESCO(NICE)of JACK MAXIMUN,but this restaurant of Paris does not require so much money.You will find a great taste in the table .Reservation is necessary.As far as the price is concerned,it costs fairely high to stay the hotels in Paris,so you must seek a middle class chainhotel,exit this hotel as soon as you can,and go cheeper one in the local towns.
DIEPPE
Here ia a port of the ferryboats .Huge boarts enter and leave between England.I have visited this town on 15 august ,the day of Assomption.I met the festival,open stores,merrygoround ,and music played by the musicians, singers from French and from England sponsored by local broadcasting until midnight.Fruits de mer (dished by boiled crabs and raw shell fishes)is the best choice for dinner.Or a moule marinier(shell fish vapored by white wine and chopped onion). I reste Hotel Plage near the sea. I enterd before noon,but the hotel was occupied just after noon.
ROUEN
First of all,you should look about famous paintings by Monet ,Renoir etc. in the Musee des Beaux Arts.Then chirches.The speciality of ROUEN is a cuisine of canard.I stayed Hotel Dieppe in front of the station.The hotelmen were all very kind .I have checked my baggage in the hotel before noon ,and when I returned the hotel after noon the baggage has already been mooved in my room.
Le HAVRE
It sounds nice to pronounce Le HARVRE,I visite this town. First of my entrance I felt very sad ,because I saw a monument of those who died in battle of The world war 2nd. Landing operation of NORMANDIE.There are many ships in the harbor.The art museum of this town is also valuable. World wide collection of the porcelains are exhibited. Among them I found that made in JAPAN were the most wonderful ones.A waiter said that the dish I have ordered was out of stock,so I left the restaurant in the station,and found a vivid restaurant 50 meters far from the station.The restaurant was clauded by family customers.A cuisine was delicious and cheeper than that of station. A middle aged waitress was a wonderful woman ,brought me a pitcherful of water(not mineral water). It costs free.
I stayed Hotel Parisien. I met a warm reception.
HONFLEUR
I found a bus stop behind the railway station of Le HARVRE just Iwas taught by a man of the hotel. Running through the sight of NORMANDIE about 2 hours,get off a bus at HONFLEUR. Here is a wellknown figure paited by many artists.For look over the town,I walked up a hill top. On the way I found the raspberrys. At the hill top,thre is also a monument of World War2nd,and a chirch. Arrive at restaurant Ferme St-Simeon 11o'clock,reserve a table for lunch,taking a walk in the garden plantted apple trees.Because the sun shine was strong,Itake a lunch on a table under the tree. A dish is fairely expensive,and I ordered a fish one. It was delicious and fine,but was not enough volume. Next,turning to a dessert,it was an icecream covered with dishful chocolates,make me a full stomack and happy at all.At 2:PM getting in a bus ,returened to the hotel in Le HARVRE where I deposit my baggages .
RENNE
I stayed RENNE for a base of my travel,I do not look around this town so much. When I saw a crepe shop,I think I was BRETAGNE. A madam recommended me a dish of raw scallops with vineger. I tried it after returned in Japan,it tastes goood. I stayed Hotel Astrid a front of station. The room is simple and cheep. I have the dinner in the hotel,and felt the regume de jarden(vegitable from garden)was wonderful .
MONT ST-MICHEL
Because the traffic root is not so good, one must change a train to bus to go to MONT ST-MICHEL. Yet,visiting the island is absolutely valuable. One of a top of the famous sight seeing positions in France. Entering the imposing structure,everybody was exsited and turned to chattering. A guide cried silence s'il vous plait(be silence). Eate a speciality of jambo omelette,and drunk wine . And when I waited a train at the sattion named DOLL,I suffered from headache due to bad wine and bad correpondence of a train.
ST-MARO
The town is surrrounded with a castel wall and protrudes ocean. Enter a
porte mixing with clauded people like in a train at rush hour in TOKYO. There is a walking road on the castel wall,and one can see the panorama of the ocean. Somebody play beach volley ball on the beach.This was once a fortress. I returened RENNE on the day.