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Footprint Guide to Normandy, by Andrew Sanger |
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 Lifelong Francophile Andrew Sanger has visited and thoroughly explored most of rural France, and has written books about much of it too. His latest guidebook - Footprint Guide to Normandy (£13.99) - is his first, however, on Normandy.
‘With no facilities provided by anybody, I travelled round the region at my own expense, on a shoestring, rather quickly, and out of season. Luckily I’ve actually visited the place many times before.
‘Normandy, of course, gives much to think about – especially the heritage it shares with Britain, from 1066 to D-Day, as well as the Belle Epoque and the birth of Impressionism. My own favourite discovery was the quiet Perche region, a profoundly rustic ‘world within a world’ on Normandy’s southern edge.’
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"As the sun warmed on my back, bees bumbled from Gentian to Orchid to Bloody Cranesbill and, as the umpteenth noisy tour group weaved off down the narrow road, the sounds of nature return to Poulnabrone. But not for long, if I’m lucky there will be a 5-minute gap before the next tour bus arrives.
High up on the limestone Burren in County Clare the dolman or portal tomb of Poulnabrone is the most photographed monument in Ireland."
© The Reading Eagle, Pennsylvania - 28th August 2005
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