Guest blogger! Cook’s handbook for Normandy, 1883

- July 7, 2026July 31, 2026

Our guest blogger today is Cook’s Handbook for Normandy (and Brittany) from 1883. Excerpts include traveler advice, the Norman character and scenery. Every town and larger village are described, but for this match we have included a visitor guide to Bayeux. We expected the handbook to be a little dry but it

Beautiful Nico Jungman illustrations of Normandy – midweek picture post!

- April 4, 2026April 6, 2026

'Normandy by Nico Jungman' says the title of this 1905 book, and his paintings decorate its pages generously. However the text is by Geraldine Edith Mitton, who doesn't get a mention until you open its pages. Does this explain some of her rather sour views on Normandy within? Geraldine does

The bad review; Guest blogger Anna tells us about her visit to Honfleur, in 1890

- March 21, 2026April 6, 2026

This post was first published in November 2015 "Honfleur is an evil-smelling place..." Anna Bowman-Dodd was a travel writer and journalist born in 1855, in New York, and popular at the turn of the 20th century. In 1890 Anna published ‘In and out of three Normandy inns’. Her book includes a rather startling

Peasant life in Normandy, by Gertrude Käsebier in 1894 – guest photo blogger!

- November 2, 2025November 3, 2025

Rabbit and poultry vendors First published 2017 Today our midweek photo post comes from the small farming community of Cressy in Seine Maritime. Our guest blogger Gertrude Käsebier visited in 1894, while an art student in Paris. Her unique photographs of Normandy country life reveal a world now long lost, a

The ghastly end of the cruellest corsair, in Barfleur – guest blogger!

- August 1, 2025August 1, 2025

First published December 2017 After last week’s post we’ve had lots of people ask about the corsair Gilles le Marchant, Sieur de Raffoville and godson of gentle Gilles de Gouberville. Did we know more about him and what was his bloody end? Well yes we do know a bit, our guest

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