The week begins with arrival at the château — a historic estate set within private Normandy land. Guests arrive independently, most traveling from Paris by train or car.

• Check-in and settle in — find your room, explore the château, gardens, and estate at your own pace.
• Opening walk — the grounds, the gardens, the views, and the wide Norman sky.
• Welcome apéro — local cider, calvados, Norman charcuterie, and the first gathering of the group.
• Opening dinner — a chef-prepared Norman meal to mark the beginning of the week.

A day devoted to Norman cuisine — its ingredients, its technique, and its philosophy. Normandy produces some of the finest butter, cream, cheese, apples, and cider in the world. Today, we cook with all of it.

• Morning cooking atelier — hands-on with our chef using seasonal Norman ingredients: butter, cream, apples, herbs, local produce.
• The art of the Norman table — setting the table as a creative act: flowers, linens, ceramics, and composition.
• Cider and calvados tasting — the liquid landscape of Normandy, tasted slowly.
• Lunch together — the meal we prepared, eaten at the long table.
• Free afternoon — sketch, rest, explore the grounds, or visit a local market.

A morning in the château garden — gathering, studying, and arranging flowers and seasonal botanicals in the Norman tradition.

• Garden walk and gathering — collecting flowers, herbs, branches, and seasonal botanicals from the estate.
• Floral atelier — guided workshop in arrangement and composition: form, color, texture, and intention.
• Still life drawing — arranging and drawing a composition from the morning's gathered flowers.
• Group lunch, then free afternoon — sketch, walk the estate, or rest in the gardens.

A day of working with clay — the most elemental of materials, and one of the oldest ways of making something beautiful and useful.

• Ceramics atelier — hands-on session working with clay: pinch pots, small vessels, and objects for the table.
• Drawing the made object — a still life practice drawing the objects created in the morning.
• Group lunch, then free afternoon — a walk to a nearby village, rest on the estate, or independent exploration.

A full day in the Norman countryside — visiting the white cliffs of Étretat, the coast, and the villages that define one of the most beautiful regions in France.

• Étretat white cliffs excursion — the most dramatic coastal landscape in France; drawing and sketching on the cliffs above the sea.
• Coastal village wandering — seafood, calvados, and the atmosphere of Norman port life.
• Optional excursion — Mont Saint-Michel or the Bayeux Tapestry, depending on group preference.
• Return to the château — dinner and a slow evening on the estate.

The penultimate evening — a night of costume, music, firelight, and celebration. The château comes alive.

• Morning creative salon — gathering and reflecting on the week's creative work: drawings, objects, notes, and impressions.
• Free afternoon — final wandering, shopping in a local village, sketching, or rest.
• Costume apéro — guests dress in something that speaks to them: a color, a character, a feeling.
• Bonfire dinner — a long feast around the fire, with music, stories, and the warmth of a group that has become, over the week, something like a family.

A slow final morning. The last breakfast in the château dining room. Final walks through the gardens. Farewells at your own rhythm.

• Slow breakfast in the château dining room — the last shared morning table.
• Final journaling or sketching — quiet time before the day begins.
• Farewell gathering — addresses exchanged, photographs taken, final words.
• Departures — onward to Paris, home, or wherever the week takes you next.