Camembert - the town and the cheese

 

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We drove to the town of Camembert, which was very small with just the Camembert Museum, so we visited the cheese farm in town, "Fromegerie DURAND", instead.  It is a working farm where you can watch through windows as the camembert is made, then taste and buy cheese in the store. There were also some 7-week old calves in their own nesting containers.  Vincent enjoyed seeing the cows.

Then lunch in Vimoutiers (near where the lady who helped invent camembert was born), and onward through the town of Livarot (we'll have to come back to visit this cheese town) to Lisieux.

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Back to Pont-l'Évêque for the Fête du Fromage (cheese festival). Lots of tasting and buying. Then back to our brick house hotel for one more night.  Pizza in town for dinner.

JD's pictures Camembert and the Fête du Fromage

Alex took this picture below at my request, a statue to the lady who invented camembert - but of course there was a monk involved!  (wine, cheese, champagne - those monks were always inventing)

"Marie Harel, born April 28, 1761, near Vimoutiers in Normandy, was the inventor of Camembert cheese with Abbot Charles-Jean Bonvoust."