First published August 2015 La Varenne river winds through the high cliffs and low fields in the Orne, Normandy. To find one little cottage that may no longer exist along it's 40km was a challenge that we accepted... And won. Uncared for, unkempt. Easily missed in the undergrowth, sturdy cottage steps took us up to
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Tourgéville; the diary of a small Normandy village
First published 2016/05/21 Our postcard did not name the view, it just said ‘La vieille chaumières Normande’ 'the old Normandy cottages'. We studied it many times trying to place the strong outline of the church next to the higgledy piggledy houses, before letting the postcard drift to the bottom of the heap. Then