travel starts with photography

Chapter 214 Monet's Garden

This person came from behind, and he regretted seeing the model come out.

"Fortunately, there are still classes on Thursday."

A student who was still arranging his painting tools said, "Oh, by the way, the teacher asked us to inform you that if you didn't come to this class, you won't be able to come to the next class."

"Really? I suspect you are lying to me."

The last girl who went out commented: "Men don't have a good thing."

Chen Xing was in awe, as if he had returned to China.

But this young lady probably didn't open the map cannon on purpose. After all, the student who spoke was the one who ran in last. Seeing how he was out of breath when he entered the door, he knew that he came to the classroom after receiving the news.

So, Chen Xing also despised it in his heart—an old pervert.

Eight of us honest men are ashamed to be with you.

In the afternoon, I took another photography class and returned to the dormitory after three o'clock.

Not long after, Hedwig also came back, looking much more cheerful than before?
Just like what Chen Xing said in the morning, some people really don't know how beautiful they are. This sentence is not only for Sha Rukh, but also for Hedwig.

It is estimated that she is the same as Chen Xing when she was young, the kind who does not look obvious at first glance, but gradually becomes more beautiful after 15 years old.

The difference is that when Chen Xing was young, he was extroverted and was the king of children, while Hedwig might have been isolated and bullied, resulting in a more withdrawn personality. Even when he grew up, he didn't know how beautiful he was.

Thinking of this, Chen Xing felt that he had done a good deed.

"How was it at school today? Did you impress the boys in your class?"

Seeing that Chen Xing was the only one in the living room, Hedwig nodded a little embarrassedly and said: "Well, they will come to chat with me, I... a little nervous."

Chen Xing gave up a part of the sofa, patted Hedwig to sit over, and said to her: "If you don't want to pay attention to him, just ignore him, and you have to learn to reject others. You can just shake your head if you don't want to talk."

Her room was not cleaned up yesterday, so she could completely refuse Chen Xing to go to her room, but she kept a tangled attitude until Chen Xing saw her room. Chen Xing really did not expect such a personality to appear in the United States.

In his impression, girls in America should be outgoing and open in character.

It's really strange that such a rogue and domineering country can still raise a person like Hedwig.

Hedwig sat down, not daring to meet Chen Xing's eyes, and said, "I'm very afraid of rejecting others."

"Don't be afraid, the standard of growth is not having any guilt after rejecting others."

This is Chen Xing's perception after entering the society for a period of time.

If you travel alone for a long time, you will find many vulnerable group organizations wandering in various stations all over the country. They will try their best to ask you to donate some money to charity, or there are many mothers and daughters who have no money to take the subway. I want to ask you for the money for the subway fee.

If you don't know how to refuse, the travel expenses of 10 yuan will be used up in a short time.

After chatting for a while, Chen Xing was about to go back to the room to play games, so he said: "Okay, you can call me anyway if you need anything, our school is so close, I can go there soon, I'm going back to my room first."

Hedwig nodded.

Chen Xing joked, "If you shake your head, then I can sit with you for a while longer."

Hedwig instantly became an ostrich.

Chen Xing closed his smile.

boring.

………………

Time flies, and another weekend is coming.

On Friday, there was only one professional course on the history of photography. Chen Xing was not interested in this course, so he asked for leave with Professor Nobel, and planned to go to the surrounding cities of Paris and take pictures of some scenery to relax.

Professor Nobel readily approved leave.

Compared with the commercial photography that Chen Xing became famous in France, he hoped that Chen Xing would focus on landscape photography.

There is a chain of contempt in the photography circle. Documentary shooters look down on landscape shooters, landscape shooters look down on portrait shooters, and finally everyone despises flower and bird shooters together.

Professor Nobel is now shooting documentaries, but he was originally from landscape photography. His most expensive photo has been widely circulated. The copyright fee alone has collected more than 1000 million US dollars. Almost everyone in the school knows about it.

Chen Xing found the backpack he hadn't taken out for a long time in the suitcase, and only put a set of clothes in it.

He only goes out for two or three days, and one set is enough.

If there are other things that are delayed, or if the clothes are dirty and need to be changed, Chen Xing is also more inclined to buy locally.

Definitely bring a camera.

Then there are a lot of charging cables, but it is empty in the backpack. This time, there are too few things. He has never done this kind of short-term travel for only two or three days before. Finally, there is mouthwash and wax. Little things like that.

When he went downstairs, he saw Aunt Lizi watering the flowers, so Chen Xing said, "Aunt Lizi, I'm going out to play for a few days."

"That's good. There's more beautiful places in France than Paris. Where are you going?"

"Giverny."

This is a small town with just over 500 people. It is located in the Haut-Normandy province, 70 kilometers west of Paris, on a hillside in the Seine Valley.This is a very famous scenic spot in France. He has the former residence of Claude Monet, the father of French impressionism, and the beautiful Monet garden.

Monet's garden is where he created the series of masterpieces "Water Lilies".

Chen Xing didn't like this subject, but since it was the idol's former residence, Chen Xing would definitely have to go on a trip.

"Giverny, that's a great place to travel. I wish you a pleasant trip and stay safe."

After bidding farewell to Aunt Lizi, Chen Xing walked to the subway station.

Giverny is located between Paris and Rouen, and there is no direct train, so you have to transfer at a place called Vernon Station first, and then take a bus there. The bus ticket from Nong to Giverny only costs five euros.

But it's also because of the proximity, if you don't want to spend the five dollars to walk, it won't take long.

The whole process took two hours.

Chen Xing has a lot of imagination about this classical French town.

Apart from staying in the big city of Paris for a period of time, he was in Nice in the south of France.There are still many ancient cities around Nice, but the architectural style there is actually more inclined to the ancient Roman style, which is a relatively tough one, which is naturally different from the French style.

But no matter how much you imagine, it is better to see it.

Chen Xing got off at the parking lot. The Giverny parking lot was built at the entrance of the town, surrounded by lush woods and green pastures. In front of the village was a slightly sloping open land that stretched all the way to the Seine River.

Cars of various styles and colors are neatly parked in this parking lot.

Comparable to the magnificence of domestic popular attractions.

It looks like a lot of people.

Chen Xing walked out of the parking lot smelling the fresh air.

Compared with Paris, the air in Giverny can really be said to be sweeter. A large number of green plants can not only soothe your vision and body and mind, but also clean your lungs.

As soon as I walked out of the parking lot, I saw a van that had been converted into an ice cream van. There was a window behind the car.

A lot of people who just got out of the parking lot lined up here.

Chen Xing didn't feel the heat, but he was hungry, so he queued up to buy one since it was still early.

It is difficult to see a person walking while eating on the streets of Paris. If a merchant selling ice cream does business in Paris, he will definitely go bankrupt if he does not find the right place.

But here, people seem to relax a bit.

Further on, there is a cafe hidden in the garden.

In fact, this cafe is open-air, but if you don't pay attention, you will easily walk directly from the front road, and then it will be blocked by the garden walls on both sides, so you can't see the inside.

Chen Xing heard a lot of people talking in the yard here, and then retreated, only to find out.

The ground of the Old Town of Nice is a whole piece of marble, which is stuck to the ground like tiles. The marble is relatively resistant to time, so even in the modern Old Town of Nice, the roads are still smooth and there are not many potholes.

The floor in Giverny, at least from the car park up to here, is concrete, but the courtyard where the cafe is located is gravel.

The very fine stones have no sharp edges and corners, and are firmly fixed together by unknown materials. Some of these stones are reddish, some are white, and the color is not uniform, but they have a good feeling.

The layout is also very good-looking. Two bicycles are parked at the entrance, and in front of it are flower pots transformed from beer barrels and small wooden barrels, in which flowers or slightly larger potted plants are grown. Now is the season when most flowers are blooming. The small courtyard is colorful and extremely delicate.

Small round tables and parasols are placed among these flowers.

The guests are sitting among the flowers, holding coffee in their hands and crossing their legs. Anyone who passes by can feel that kind of comfort.

But it's too early for coffee, isn't it?
Chen Xing made a note of this place and moved on.

Like the old town of Nice, the streets here are also very narrow, but slightly wider than Nice, but the houses on both sides have flowers and a lot of plants outside the houses, which makes the road very congested.

There is only one main road, but this road is still wide.

The shops are mainly galleries, and at least six of the ten open shops are galleries. Some galleries may be well-known in France, and a large number of tourists are crowded there, but other galleries are not short of customers.

After all, there are many tourists here from all over the world.

Chen Xing randomly entered a house.

Most of the painters who are willing to stay here are also fans of Monet. Impressionism has a strong sense of light and color.Now that they have all come here for tourism, tourists still know a little about Impressionism, so these shops are not very worried about sales.

There are so many galleries and countless works in the whole town of Giverny, there will always be a painting you like.

Chen Xing visited several stores, and the more he looked, the more worried he became, his brows were deeply frowned.

My technique is too bad!

Chen Xing does not lack the understanding of light and color in nature. The color talent is in Chen Xing's personal information column, and light...does the photographer not understand light?Photographers and painters at the same level, the photographer is the one who understands light better.

Chen Xing felt that he could overwhelm the painters here, but his technique was too poor and his painting was not good enough.

The owner of a gallery sent away a owner who bought a painting, and walked to Chen Xing: "Hello, did you fancy something?"

"No, but I think these paintings are very good. Did you draw them?"

"It's me, thank you for the compliment, your French is also very good, foreign student?"

"Yes."

Chen Xing asked him about renting a house in this small town, and the painter's eyes immediately became sharp, and then he looked at Chen Xing seriously.

"You learned to draw?"

"Well, why?"

He has black hair, like many Asian male stars, his clothes are clean, and he looks handsome. He doesn't look like a painter, but looks like a debut idol, but he also said that he is an overseas student and still learning painting.

Hiss...are all young people nowadays so curly?

How long do you come to learn painting?
"Because most of the people renting houses here are painters, ordinary tourists seldom have this kind of thought. How about your painting? If it's not bad, you can put the painting in my shop. The price is very affordable."

Chen Xing shrugged and said, "Beginner."

But sooner or later, I will learn and come out of the mountain, Chen Xing thought to himself.

"That's a pity." The boss made an exaggerated expression of regret, and stopped chatting with Chen Xing, and said, "I'll receive other guests first, so you can take a look at it first. If there is a painting you like, I can Give you a cheaper price."

After that, I went to find someone else.

You haven't told me whether the rent here is expensive...

Chen Xing rolled his eyes.

He didn't have any other ideas. He mainly wanted to compare the rent prices in the main city of Paris and here, and then compare it with that in China. After all, the living environment here is so good, there seems to be no disadvantages except for the large number of tourists?
The garden-style life of singing birds and fragrant flowers is what he dreams of.

Big house with big yard.

This motivation to make money revived him, and he took the camera to look for pictures that he could take.

Put it on the website, and if someone uses it, it will cost hundreds of thousands of euros to the account.

When you come to Giverny to visit, the most important thing is Monet's garden. The house is so big that it takes a long time to walk around it from the outside.If you want to go in, you need to queue up and buy tickets, but it is very cheap, the student price is 5.5 euros.

There were not many people in the team, but they walked very slowly.

The efficiency of Europeans is something that Chen Xing really wants to complain about.

Waited in line for about 10 minutes before walking in.

As soon as I entered, I saw a sign in the scenic spot, which briefly introduced the area inside.

Monet's garden consists of two parts, the garden and the water garden.

The garden, also known as the Normandy garden, is just in front of the house. It is rectangular and covers an area of ​​about one hectare. It was an orchard before it was transformed by Monet. The pine tree in front of the gate was cut down and a greenhouse was built to grow flowers and grass.

I really love flowers and plants, and now the whole town is full of flowers, Monet has at least [-]% of the credit.

Another water garden, also called water garden.

But I can't see it now. I have to wait until I finish visiting the garden on the road and go to the back to see the garden on the water.

(End of this chapter)