“Have you got the Brittany Ferry tickets?” my wife Jenny asked as we were coming to the end of our mid-morning packing to return to our holiday home in Northern France. Yes. I did but when I got them ...
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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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