Look what love can do – La Chaslerie in the Orne

- September 3, 2016September 24, 2016

When a vintage Normandy postcard shows a rather tumbledown building, we are never sure if we will find a gleaming restoration, or a pile of rubble. Happily the manor ‘La Chaslerie' gleams, and all because of a rather determined Parisian and his charming, if patient, wife. Looking for a new challenge Disenchanted by

Where are the stone soldiers of Manoir des gens d’Armes? In Caen

- August 13, 2016December 13, 2016

There have been a lot of changes for this old building and something quite spectacular is now missing... There have probably been dwellings on this piece of land by the Orne river since dwellings took over from caves and nice hollow trees. We do know a ‘Manor Talbotière’ stood here and

The unwanted inheritance of le Hôme

- July 18, 2016July 31, 2026

First published 2016/06/18 Long ago part of the land called Varaville that reaches across marshland to the sea, was known as le Homme. Tucked between the estuaries of the Dives and Orne rivers, its soft coastal dunes were a kingdom of rabbits. A desolate place, Homme was disturbed only by birds, animals

The very private castle of William the Conqueror, at Bonneville-sur-Touques

- January 16, 2016February 25, 2024

When a building in Normandy calls itself ‘the old castle of William the Conqueror’ it is best to believe it, although we thought this one was probably a bit of an old folk tale. One of the Conqueror’s castles a private house? Surely a rare bit of Norman whimsy. No whimsy

Hidden heritage and Seasons Greetings from Normandy

- December 25, 2015February 25, 2024

‌We are particularly fond of this vintage postcard as it is the only one we have every seen with a snowy Normandy scene. It is a picture of Chapelle Saint-Vincent in Launay, probably on a Christmas Eve many years ago. Somehow we tracked the nameless chapel down to Launay, near Ernemont-la-Villette, down

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