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AWOL in the Orne, in 1918

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First published February 2016 In between quiet villages and charming towns in the Orne, Normandy, are vast swathes of forests and fields. Here quite a lot happens, but people generally keep it to themselves. We were therefore rather baffled when a postcard match took us to a very private house on a rarely

Cherbourg, torpedoes and a Tsar in the playground

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Unsettling times The first few years of the new century were not comfortable for heads of state in Europe. Everyone was looking hard at the newly unified German Empire.  Now the many Germanic principalities have stopped squabbling between themselves they are putting a lot of energy into building rather more military power than

The strange WW1 tale of Belgium in Normandy, at Sainte-Adresse

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We knew of Sainte-Adresse from some delightful summery paintings by Claude Monet but didn’t know where it was, or that it used to run Belgium, until we picked up an old postcard with a lovely view of the Seine estuary. We also didn’t know there was never a saint called Sainte-Adresse… Belgium

A principled man from Le Tréport

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World famous composer and conductor, POW survivor, flouter of Nazi dictates, Légion d'honneur and style icon, Paul Paray was a man from le Tréport. The defiant POW There is an odd gap in Paul’s early career. But to briefly start from the beginning, Paul was born May 24, 1886 in Le Tréport

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