Autumn leave(s)

I don't! I know very little of Normandy actually, even less the Lower part, except Gatteville where I used to go every summer, and that I think I have already featured here.

Mostly, towns and cities are prettier at night.

For example Honfleur is a really nice town but at night it is fantastic, especially the harbor area

I don't know, Ghent and Brussels look to me prettier by day. At night it's all gloomy and feels dead. Zurich at night was sad and boring, but watched from some height, the city did look magical, with all the churches bathed in light. As for Paris where I've spent so many years, I just don't know. Too many winter nights stuck in traffic jams in a crowded bus made quite a dent to whatever charms Parisian nights might have had.

Maybe I like the night time more because I see it from the photographers side?

Did you know I have grown up in Normandy? 20 km north of Rouen.

Since I have lived in a variety of places ever since, I still present myself as a Norman.

I haven't been often to Honfleur, and always by day!

May I ask from where exactly you come from?

Sure! To be entirely exact, I come from Rouen; this where I have been born, this is where my family is from, this is where my parents lived when I was an infant. But I grew up in the countryside, in a small village called Cailly. I always longed to go back to Rouen though!

I half-lived there during my high-school years because my high school was there and I was often staying with my grand-parents - and they still live there. I left at age 17 for my studies, and then lived in Paris until January of this year (and a tad bit in Atlanta as well). Whenever I took the train back to Normandy and was seeing the beautiful cathedral's spire, I always felt back at home. This view of the city from the train as it crosses the Seine is engraved in my mind as the "hometown" image.

That's about my full bio!

(This is not the exact view I have in mind but it's close enough.)

and this is my grand-parents' street (and my high school is actually just around the corner, where there is a tree):

And this is Cailly (it's actually the same street from both sides, but truth is, there aren't many streets to show anyway):