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The wandering gatehouse of Beuvillers, Calvados

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Tiny Beuvillers is just south of Lisieux in Normandy and you would think this beautiful Poterne de Beuvillers would be easy to find. The photographer made a very small mistake.  It’s not really a Poterne - that translates as Postern, the secondary door or gate in an ancient fortification. This is

The lady in the glass of l’eglise Saint-Jean, Caen

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A simple postcard match silently reveals the carnage of 1944 without saying a word.  See how Rue Saint Jean has changed?  Brillaud Laujardière was the chief architect responsible for Caen’s reconstruction after WW2.  His forward looking design blew fresh air into once narrow streets, planned for a world with cars

Walking with death; L’ aître Saint-Maclou in Rouen

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If you walk along Rue Martainville past  Saint-Maclou church in Rouen, keep a sharp eye out for the quietly marked entrance to L' aître Saint-Maclou.­ Under a covered entrance way, along an ancient alley and up a small ramp, turn right and you are in a very strange courtyard. Lining up our

Buy me Château de Boutemont!

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When you are granted three wishes, after world peace and the end to all disease, the third wish is of course for a Normandy château. We think we may have found exactly the one to wish for, hidden at the end of an ancient lane edged with trees that form a

The shadow of young girls in flower – at Cricquebœuf

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Surely this church must have fallen down.  Look at all that Ivy! Was it a ruin? Someone thought the view picturesque enough to make the postcard that we found in a St Ouen flea market, north of Paris.  But no-one ever posted the card, so we don't know when it looked

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