The part of the garden that is directly in front of Monet's house is full of these dirt pathways so that you can walk through the rows of flowers. It made me feel like I was in Hobbiton. I didn't want to leave.
This was the quaint little restaurant we went to for lunch just around the corner from Monet's house.
Some of the flowers that were in Monet's garden.
This is the entrance to Monet's gardens. I was surprised to find the bamboo shoots in Normandy, but it is all part of the Japanese theme runs through the whole garden.
Claude Monet's house. I was surprised to learn that there are no original Monet paintings in his house, but it was for a very practical reason: he had sold them all.
However, there are very few impressionist paintings in France in general because when the impressionist movement happened, the French rejected it and thought that it wasn't "real" art; this is why many impressionist artists often sold their works to foreign collectors, many of whom were American.
