Beach Huts at Gouville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325584)
Rockingham, Australia
June 24, 2017 1:11am CST
Last night there were perhaps 30 camping cars/motor-homes lined up along the seashore at Gouville-sur-mer in Normandy, France. Just up the beach a few hundred metres are a number of colourful huts where people use as change rooms before they go swimming. With the different colour rooves these look very bright. There is also a big dark cloud on the horizon but I don’t know if rain is forecast or not.
Vince met a fellow photographer who had very little English but they managed to communicate and compare cameras etc. The three of us went to photograph the huts and I was able to make myself understood enough to have a nice, if stunted, conversation so I was pretty pleased about that. Although I might know the words I wonder about my pronunciation but he seemed to understand relatively well. It was nice to have someone to practise on.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
24 Jun 17
I have found the local people in France quite forgiving of my less than perfect pronunciation. I love those huts. Let the adventures continue lol
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
24 Jun 17
@JudyEv You manage to have the best adventures. lol
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@JudyEv (325584)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Jun 17
@BelleStarr No-one spoke English but a visitor there had worked for some years in America and she was able to explain. She then left and our electric cord connections weren't the right ones so they adapted one of our plugs to give us power. Vin pretended to pack up their tools with his own which caused a big laugh. It's funny sometimes how things work out.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
24 Jun 17
Colourful huts...Enjoy yourselves.
As long as you get your meaning across you are doing pretty good
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16531)
• China
24 Jun 17
Those colourful huts make a unique landscape . Normandy reminds me of Normandy landing or Operation Overlord.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16531)
• China
25 Jun 17
@JudyEv They are instructive tourist sites that makes people learn the lesson of history.
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@JudyEv (325584)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Jun 17
@changjiangzhibin89 It is good to be reminded of the debt we owe our soldiers.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
24 Jun 17
So nice a photo Judy!
They are quite colorful and the cloud provides a contrasting backdrop.
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@moffittjc (118421)
• Gainesville, Florida
24 Jun 17
When I first saw the photograph, I thought they were little toy houses! They almost don't look real from a distance, as if they were game pieces from a Monopoly game board! But they are beautiful!
Is that a part of Normandy where the Allied troops stormed the beaches during WWII?
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@spaceseed (2843)
• India
24 Jun 17
clouds makes the beauty ...................................amazing
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@Elisa1234 (7607)
• Philippines
24 Jun 17
Nice photo! I like the color of the roof tops
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@snowy22315 (169851)
• United States
24 Jun 17
Nice pics of the beach huts. I know what you mean about the French. One time we got lost in Montreal, and we were trying to get directions from somebody who spoke about as much English as I speak French which was limited for both..However, we managed to communicate!
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
24 Jun 17
I received your post card from Ireland. Thank you very much. I hope you are having a wonderful time. So, were you in Ireland and also France? I need to look at some of your recent posts. I've been at my son's house in North Carolina for ten days. Just got back home last night. Trying to catch up with everyone.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
25 Jun 17
@JudyEv My goodness! You have really been traveling! I didn't realize that you were traveling that much. How nice!
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@DeborahDiane (40049)
• Laguna Woods, California
26 Jun 17
@DianneN - Yes, we have also found that people in other countries like to try their English out with us ... and they are very patient when we try to use a variety of languages. Once, in Paris, a foreign woman was trying to figure out the train system. She didn't speak French or English, but she did speak Spanish, so we were able to help her. LOL
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@JudyEv (325584)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Jun 17
@DeborahDiane We are thinking of spending a little while in Spain but neither of us know any Spanish so that might be interesting.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
24 Jun 17
Those colorful huts almost look like toy structures.
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@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
25 Jun 17
Always nice to meet someone with similar interests.
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