2026 update!! Fully renovated and apartments available: Manoir des Creuniers - Trouville - Histoire & Patrimoine Published January 2016 To be foiled by large gates and a ‘Propriété Privée’ notice when we went to match this grand villa would not have been a surprise. What we did not expect was a forest of brambles
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Falling down in the Orne; a tale of friendship and murder
First published 2015 Home to Parisian bankers, international golf hotel and Normandy residence of a British criminal who once joined the Queen on the Sunday Times ‘Rich List’. This is possibly the most unnerving postcard match to make the pages of Normandy Then and Now. When we couldn’t find the location
Abandoned Normandy; a cottage by La Varenne
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
The monster in the marsh, at Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes
First published December 16, 2017 High above the cliffs at the eastern end of Omaha beach stand ruins of the Chapelle Saint-Siméon de Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes. Old walls are shored up by brambles and protected by mud and horses. This small valley ‘Val des Hachettes’ has been cut over thousands of years by
