A small, rather faded vintage leaflet from the Chemins de Fer de l’Etat (State Railways of France) promotes two charming excursions around Normandy that we would happily recommend today. The first scales the dizzy heights of Suisse Normande with all it's 'charm, grace and hints of savagery'. The second invites
Picture posts
Pictures of something that interests us, that don’t always have a postcard match.
Celebrating the first day of summer, in 1920’s Deauville – photo post!
'Groupe de 6 baigneuses dansant en ligne sur une plage a Deauville' say the notes with this charming old photograph, 'Group of 6 bathers dancing in a line on Deauville beach'. Five of these young ladies have sleek swimming costumes and their hair is controlled with neat little turbans. The sixth dancer
Musée Historique of Mont Saint-Michel – midweek picture post!
A visit to Mont Saint-Michel always raises our spirits and our heart rates as we clamber up so, so many steps. The paved plateau by Chapelle Notre-Dame-sous-Terre is about the highest place visitors can explore, with a view well worth the gasping and being elbowed aside by power walking retirees. This
Gothic architecture in Normandy – photos from 1865
Bayeux Cathedral Travellers have been writing about this region since the saints trudged Christianity through it's pagan highways and byways more than a thousand years ago. By the time Frederic George Stephens arrived for a tour in the 1860's, Normandy had been so well described he was hard pressed to be original
