In our part of Normandie, along the river, there is the route des fruits, the fruit route. There are many, many apple orchards and also other fruit. There are also crops of canola, wheat, sunflowers and more and many cows for dairy and meat. It is so green, vibrantly green. A colour we see for such a short time in South Australia in our winter. The long grass is lush and it feels so alive with birds chirping and the sun shining and a light breeze.

Another key local industry is alluvial sand and gravel mining. Today on our walk we saw some amorous donkeys and some angry cows!

We saw a farmer bringing in the cows and calves to a new paddock in a trailer. We don’t know why these two weren’t getting along but no doubt it was something to do with their children.