Monet in Melbourne

Last week we travelled by train to Melbourne to catch up with some good friends and to see the Monet exhibition.

The weather smiled on us - it was not the usual chilly Melbourne winter - and we enjoyed a couple of memorable meals, a lot of laughs and of course the Monet paintings!

There were more than sixty paintings ranging from his early works to those painted not long before his death in 1926.  We loved some of the early landscapes especially.  Most of the work was donated to France in 1966 in the will of Monet's younger son. We were so glad we had made the effort to visit Melbourne just before we head off for three months travel O/S.

Here we are at Monet's house - well it looks like it doesn't it?