Discovering Normandy

YEAR 2010

Discovering Normandy

Running on a green lawn until you find yourself high up upon the sea. Walking …

Running on a green lawn until you find yourself high up upon the sea. Walking among ancient half-timbered houses and suddendly realizing you’re in the presence of the celebrated spires portrayed by Monet. That’s part of what happens in ever-changing Normandy, a land with a variety of landscapes worthy of a whole nation and dipped in the tastes and scents of its cuisine, based on cheese, shellfish, meat and apples. Starting from Rouen and its famous gothic cathedral, head towards the sea driving through green grazings dotted with cows, reach the Côte d’Alabâtre and enjoy the falaises in Etretat. While the Côte Fleurie is a succession of fashionable beaches and ancient harbours, in the region of Calvados the road wounds up gentle hills and past old manors; farther west, the coastline reveals untouched traces of history: the D-Day beaches, counterpointed by the English and American war cemeteries, with their appaling rows of tombstones and crosses. Cap de la Hague is the estreme landspit, deserted and wild, pressed between the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean; but your last stop should be devoted to the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, towering above a Island at the mercy of the tides.

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