{"id":2218,"date":"2012-08-22T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T19:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2012-10-16T01:09:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T08:09:22","slug":"normandy-the-land-of-calvados-and-camembert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=2218","title":{"rendered":"Normandy, the land of Calvados and Camembert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our next stop was the port town of Honfleur on the coast of Normandy. \u00c2\u00a0We found the town to be very touristy, but enjoyed some nice seafood and left the following day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2219\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2219\" class=\" wp-image-2219  \" title=\"IMG_5389\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5389-614x409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5389-614x409.jpg 614w, https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5389.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harbor in Honfluer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The next morning we drove into the heart of the Calvados region. \u00c2\u00a0We stayed in an cute little B&amp;B\u00c2\u00a0in the very small town of Bellou. \u00c2\u00a0Stephanie, the owner made us an amazing dinner each night from local produce, which was the highlight our stay. \u00c2\u00a0One evening we even got to drive her grandfathers old army Jeep. \u00c2\u00a0She told us that when her grandfather was a boy his family owned a hotel in Paris and during World War II when the American troops came in to liberate the city he remembers them stopping \u00c2\u00a0to giving him chewing gum. \u00c2\u00a0He had such good memories of this time in his life that he built and restored about 4 army Jeeps over the years. This one now belongs to Stephanie and her family.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2222\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2222\" class=\" wp-image-2222  \" title=\"IMG_5430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5430-614x409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5430-614x409.jpg 614w, https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5430.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Army Jeep<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During our couple of days in Bellou went went to try some of the local specialties including Calvados, cider and cheese.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2221\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2221\" class=\" wp-image-2221  \" title=\"IMG_5414\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5414-614x409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5414-614x409.jpg 614w, https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5414.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ch\u00c3\u00a2teau du Breuil, a big Calvados and cidre maker<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2220\" style=\"width: 337px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2220\" class=\" wp-image-2220 \" title=\"IMG_5410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5410-409x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5410-409x614.jpg 409w, https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5410.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barrels of Calvados, it really smelled amazing in here<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The most well known cheese in France and probably the world is the Camembert, which is of course from the town of Camembert. \u00c2\u00a0We went to visit the last farm using the traditional method to make their cheese and had a tasting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2223\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2223\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2223\" title=\"IMG_5440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5440-409x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5440-409x614.jpg 409w, https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5440.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The town of Camembert<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2224\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2224\" class=\" wp-image-2224  \" title=\"IMG_5447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5447-614x409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5447-614x409.jpg 614w, https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5447.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheese tasting of Camembert and other local specialties<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next stop was the port town of Honfleur on the coast of Normandy. \u00c2\u00a0We found the town to be very touristy, but enjoyed some nice seafood and left the following day. The next morning we drove into the heart of the Calvados region. \u00c2\u00a0We stayed in an cute little B&amp;B\u00c2\u00a0in the very small town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[98,108],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","tag-europe","tag-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}