Horace (Le P’tit B)

Caen has many lovely restaurants and on our first evening we already got lucky. The second night we were in…

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Breakfast at Freyja – the croissant story

Why Vienna needs croissants baked according to a Scandinavian recipe and with French butter, I am not sure. But since…

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A day trip to Falaise Castle

One of our day trips from Caen took us south to the town of Falaise, which was the birth town…

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Breakfast at Waldemar Tagesbar – update

It has been a while that I visited Waldemar Tagesbar, so it was time for a return and see how…

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Breakfast at Café Menta

Even though Café Menta is not really downtown, it’s not that far away either. Everything within walking distance from a…

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The Castle of Caen

Since the area around Caen has so much to offer we spent, besides staying three nights, only two late afternoons…

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Le Chef et sa Femme

The restaurant Le Chef et sa Femme is a bit off the beaten path in Caen. Not that the city…

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Caen

We arrived in Caen in the late afternoon after stopping at Château Gaillard and Bernay on the way from Rouen.…

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Breakfast at Bouvier

Breakfast at a hotel is not my favorite after a couple disappointments in Vienna, like Donnersmarkt or &flora. I mean…

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Gasthaus Steindl

You feel as if time has stood still inside Gasthaus Steindl, it appears unchanged since at least the ’70s. Not…

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