Mud and Massacre: Verdun 100 years on
Blog, Features, Articles, FranceFrance and Germany come together today, 29th May 2016, at Verdun to commemorate the centenary of the longest and one […]
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May Day, rickets, and the Forêt de Brotonne
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookOn May the 1st we took to the woods. If you go down a track in the Forêt de Brotonne
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Paris a rival for London, Berlin? Les folies de grandeur
Blog, Features, Articles, FranceThe titanic operations to create ‘Grand Paris’ are under way. From now until 2030, a huge new rail infrastructure around Paris linking the suburbs, together with seven new economic ‘clusters’, will be born – – or rather laboured into a very slow birth. Cost: 3 billion euros.
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Doctor Who?
Blog, Features, Articles, FranceThe medical face of France is changing. General Practitioners are rolling up their stethoscopes. France, known throughout the world for
Leprosy and La Chapelle Saint Thomas
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookThe small Leper colony in the woods down the hill with its Saint Thomas Chapel dates back to the 12th Century. We have been coming here on our walks for the last 15 years. It is surrounded by a high flint wall now taken over by the rampant vegetation.
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Alternative medecine: moles
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookOn the barbed wire fence by the farm up the road we counted 120 moles strung up in the sun
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