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Having visited the Normandy beaches on several occasions and been profoundly moved by the experience, we recently decided to make another little pilgrimage to a place where Americans are buried in foreign soil, to Madingley American cemetery near Cambridge. There, 3,812 U.S. airmen and sailors lie beneath the mown turf and names of a further 5,127 men, mostly air crew whose bodies were...
One of our favorite getaways from Paris is the charming seaside town of Le Touquet, on the English Channel two hours north by car. Unlike see-and-be-seen seaside French resorts such as Deauville or Saint-Tropez, Le Touquet is a genteel, proudly old-fashioned sort of place with a spectacularly pretty setting.
Dotted with villages of half-timbered houses and covered by a neat patchwork of hedgerows, the rolling green countryside of Normandy is so beautiful and peaceful that it belies a tumultuous history as some of the most coveted turf in Europe.
Discovering the famous Norman cheeses on their own turf is an unforgettable gastronomic experience. There is something inordinately pleasing about purchasing a farmhouse Camembert in the town of the same name.
