There was an automatic quickening of the pulse the moment we spotted our first Vide-Greniers sign of the new season. It was while my wife Jenny and I were passing through the small Normandy town of La ...
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I am always wary of making generalisations but having been a regular holiday visitor to Normandy and Brittany, I have come to realise that the French view of gardens is rather different to ours just o ...
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One has two choices when visiting a bustling French market in a large town some miles from one’s holiday gite, hotel or B&B and they are either to rise early and beat the traffic and the des ...
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I was really looking forward to our pre Christmas arrival in picturesque Lassay les Chateaux, a petite cite de Caractere,’ nestling amid rolling hills on a plateaux ninety minutes drive south f ...
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