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All our postcards from the Calvados region.

Guest post! The death wedding of Honfleur…

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Frederic Shoberl Esq., when writing his ‘Excursions in Normandy’ in 1841, relayed the tragic story of the death-wedding of Honfleur. Frederic was aboard 'Le Passager', sailing between Le Havre and Honfleur, when he struck up a conversation with the Helmsman, who told him of a strange tale of heartache, catastrophe and the

The monsters of Villers-sur-Mer

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Outrageous arrangements of plants are not a surprise in Normandy.  Towns and villages work hard to be awarded ‘Villes et Villages Fleuris’ status.  This can range from a ‘distinction’ (window boxes) to the top ‘4 flowers’ award (a creative floral explosion over everything) and rivalry is intense. So we should not

The ferocious history of château Saint-Germain-de-Livet

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Nestled in a soft green Normandy valley, could anything be more tranquil than château Saint-Germain-de-Livet? Probably not but this is Normandy and it doesn't take much digging to find a furious fighting past. Château Saint-Germain-de-Livet is no different, don't let it's pointy turrets and pretty tiled façade mislead you. Long long ago XIème siècle, the

The lost Canadian soldiers of the Ardenne Abbey

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Just outside Caen, surrounded by fields and very quickly surburban housing, is the Abbey Ardenne.  We know this because of a postcard we found of a nice old doorway.  We matched it late in the spring, not many weeks before an anniversary the Abbey will never forget. The secret garden We parked

Remembering old friends on D-Day, Normandy

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Up on the hill above Arromanches-les-Bains we looked down on the bay that became known as Gold Beach on 6 June 1944. We were matching a postcard of four survivors, soldiers who had arrived on D-Day.  We know the photo was taken shorty after D-Day as the Mulberry Harbours, essential for landing

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