{"id":8222,"date":"2017-01-07T19:14:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T18:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awanderfullife.com\/?p=8222"},"modified":"2024-08-02T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T10:29:38","slug":"christmas-lights-in-calvados-normandy-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/?p=8222","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Lights in Calvados, Normandy, France"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the first week of January in an icy cold winter and we had a short ramble around Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives on a Friday night after Christmas. It was only 8 PM and we were rather surprised at just how few people were out and about. The streets were practically empty — but that did allow me to get some good photos of the Christmas lights.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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Christmas lights in Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives in the Calvados region of Normandy, France.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Christmas lights in Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Christmas lights on the town hall in Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A cold and wintery night outside the medieval market hall in Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives in the Calvados region of Normandy, France at Christmas time.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The only place in the village that was busy on a Friday night — the kebab shop!<\/p><\/div>\n

And finally — my favourite image — Mark in silhouette as he walks down a narrow street near the market square.<\/p>\n

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A man walks down a darkened street in northern France in mid-winter.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It’s the first week of January in an icy cold winter and we had a short ramble around Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives on a Friday night after Christmas. It was only 8 PM and we were rather surprised at just how few people were out and about. The streets were practically empty — but that did allow me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[1591,61,296,1713,209],"tags":[563,695,95,1541,62,1630,694,1728,1727,1729,360,143,11,94],"class_list":["post-8222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life-2","category-europe","category-france","category-holidays","category-travel-2","tag-calvados","tag-christmas","tag-cold","tag-daily-life","tag-europe-2","tag-france","tag-holidays","tag-illuminations","tag-lights","tag-night","tag-normandy","tag-tourism","tag-travel","tag-winter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLnqP-28C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8222"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8236,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions\/8236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}