I travel… a lot. Years ago when I was first married, a clairvoyant told me that in my future she saw three legs going in and out of the country constantly. That scared me. I thought I would be handling a cane,crutches or with some kind of device helping me to walk. I was far from being a photographer, much less a Miami photographer. The years proved her right but the 3 legs were my tripod!

In my travels, I have always seeked out the unknown, small places to stay or eat. Large fancy hotels and restaurants didn’t and still don’t appeal to me. Traveling through other countries aren’t about that for me. Meeting their people, eating what they eat, and trying to assimilate their culture is what travel experience is about. Taking the ” Road Less Traveled ” as Frost so eloquently penned, has led me to places and people that made each one of those trips all the better.

This is one of those, the Hotel Rose, in Beauvoir,France, just before you get to Mont St. Michel. Owned and run by a a charming family, whose ancestors handed it down, it sits with a beautiful view of Mont St. Michel in the distance. Two daughters serve breakfast, two sons pitch in and do the odds and ends of keeping up with the cottage like atmosphere it offers. I spent time talking with their family as they shared their history along with photographs to date their place and surroundings. I got to feel that I was visiting Mont St. Michel in the early 1900’s before it became a tourist attraction.

As an added experience, when I opened my window, above my head and under the eaves, this little guy poked his head out to say bon-jour and we became friends, a la prochaine fois.

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