denisea

Thanks tomarkot—glad to include the details. This is how I “remember” everything for the next trip.

denisea

One more addition:
Auberge du Prieure Normand
1 Place de La Republique
27620 Gasny

This is the where we had lunch after visiting Monet's Garden in Giverny.

https://aubergeduprieurenormand.com/

TPAYT

Hi denisea,
Feeling very travel deprived during this pandemic it has lifted my spirits to go back and reread
past trip reports here on Fodors. Of course your Paris trip reports came to mind. All the details took me back to our favorite city and I almost felt like I was there....ALMOST!

Whenever the world gets a handle on this crisis Paris will be our first choice.

Coquelicot

Denisea, I'm glad this came up again. I remember reading your TR back then but I must have missed your last entry, about the Auberge at Gasny. I'll give that restaurant an enthusiastic second. When our plane used to arrive in the morning, we'd sometimes go there for lunch, and it was a great way to settle down for an hour or so after 24 hours of hectic travel. The welcome, the dining rooms, the service, and the excellent food--everything about the Auberge told us we were well and truly in France. I hope the restaurant is surviving.

TDudette

What everyone said above, Denies. Wonderful to re- "visit". Brava!

TDudette

Oops, denisea! Not denies in any way. Derned autocorrect.

annhig

<<Denisea, I'm glad this came up again. I remember reading your TR back then but I must have missed your last entry, about the Auberge at Gasny. I'll give that restaurant an enthusiastic second. When our plane used to arrive in the morning, we'd sometimes go there for lunch, and it was a great way to settle down for an hour or so after 24 hours of hectic travel. The welcome, the dining rooms, the service, and the excellent food--everything about the Auberge told us we were well and truly in France. I hope the restaurant is surviving.>>

Same here, Coquelicot. Looks like a good stopover for seeing Giverny too, which is something I have yet to do. No idea why not as we could easily have fitted it into one of the trips to Brittany and Normandy that Bill and I took a couple of times a year. Roll on 2022.

denisea

Bonjour everyone! To say I am missing travel is understatement. I am happy to see this report revived (@TPAYT, thanks for that)...I frequently re-read them to re-live the trip and I'm happy that it takes others back, as well. Sometimes, I am astonished that anyone reads what I have written at all! Great to hear from you TDudette, Annhig and Coquelicot! I haven't been on the forum much lately so it's great to hear from all you!

We had to cancel our December trip back to London and are about to cancel our trip to Ireland in April. I got a little hit of Paris from Emily in Paris on Netflix and I continue to daydream on Instagram (can't decide if I am torturing myself or living vicariously by doing so). I feel sure all this will help appreciate our ability to travel more in the future but it's hard to be sidelined for so long.

I too hope the Auberge at Gasny will survive and would love to go back. I think about all of the places we've been & people we've met along the way on our travels and hope they are managing this somehow and will still be there when we are lucky enough to return. I can't imagine how devastating it must be to be dependent on tourism in this time. I hope to get back Paris and Giverny...would love to visit Giverny in Summer and Fall at some point and that would include lunch at the Auberge. We are forever thankful to Victor for suggesting it and taking us there--we'd have never known about otherwise. That day was a favorite for me as I had wanted to go to Giverny for so long and we had spectacular weather. Initially, we were worried that the train strike would ruin our visit but switching gears and going on a strike day by driver worked out beautifully!

I's love to be sitting Le Bonaparte with a cafe creme and a pain au chocolat!

Judy

I'd love to be there with you, denisea! Just today cancelled 2 weeks in Paris and a week in St Jean Cap Ferrat in the spring......sad!

dlejhunt

Aw, shucks! An alert arrived in my email regarding posts to this report and it was a reminder of the good old days, when I would peruse the France forum on Fodor's in preparation for that year's French adventure. I had to cancel last year's 5-week, 60th birthday extravaganza in France and just - less than an hour ago - cancelled a June stay at Coeur de France in Sancerre. I have rescheduled AGAIN for 2022 - things HAVE to be back to almost normal by then, right?

Denisea, after reading about your trips to Paris, I have decided that if possible I will do my holiday shopping in Paris this year. I am kicking myself because I thought of going to Paris in January 2020 but didn't as I was going to be there later in the year. From now on I am grabbing every travel opportunity possible.

We'll be back, folks! In the meantime, I dream (and look at Instagram a LOT).

denisea

I know..I miss the good old days and planning for my trips. I know we're all having to cancel trips and waiting the day we get back out there! Mr Starbucks turns 50 in April and that was supposed to be Ireland (it's now Charleston--not quite the same and that assumes our case rates aren't skyrocketing). I feel awful for everyone who are missing their milestone trips but hope we'll be able to make them up someday soon.