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The sad secret of Château Gaillard

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If you are in Les Andelys and look up you will abandon all previous plans in favour of visiting the beautiful white ruined castle on the top of the cliffs.  Here overlooking the Seine river is Château Gaillard. Either park at the top of the hill behind the Château and walk

For the love of Laika, in Dives-sur-Mer

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We matched our postcard and strolled confidently through the archway to have some lunch, only to discover it was packed and all the sensible people had booked. So we went in search of a mysterious building we had heard about, the Blue House. We found it hidden away on a unimpressive

Ugly beautiful in Dives-sur-Mer

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There is an elegant Normandy villa so perfectly designed, set so well above a green meadow garden edged with trees, that every photograph of it is a success. It’s image regularly appears in blogs, tweets and across Tumblr representing the Norman ideal. It is the Villa Strassburger, located just a short, pleasant

The golden man of Lillebonne

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Our postcard prepared us for some impressive ancient ruins, but not for finding a huge amphitheatre in the middle of a small Normandy town.  Why in Lillebonne? And who was the golden man? A quick bit of scene setting Back when the Romans thought they ruled ­the land now known as Normandy,

Concrete serenity in Le Havre

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Best known by travellers from the south of England as a very useful port, Le Havre is no beauty.   Matching some old postcards we discovered this is not the fault of Le Havre. To date, these are our most shockingly altered then-and-now pictures.  Why? Back to 1944. 132 bombings by the

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