De captivants à banals, les articles et photographies de “The Baguette” sont une tentative de publier un journal de ma vie dans la Manche et de proposer un forum de discussion pour tout ce qui touche à la Normandie.
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Afternoon on a Hill I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. --Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Thank you to the person who kindly offered to take my photo in front of the pyramid. What a lovely day in the park.
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On Saturday, I went with a group of 24 people from AVF on a tour of the Chocolaterie du Drakkar in Bayeux . The chocolaterie not only has its own boutique for selling goods but a large, informative museum upstairs concerning the history of chocolate and...
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Je me souviens encore d’une plante qui m’avait émerveillé pendant mon enfance. Cette plante fleurissait au moment de Noël dans le salon de ma grand-mère paternelle, aujourd’hui décédée. Elle avait de nombreuses tiges retombantes et l’extrémité de chaque...
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My love is like a cabbage Divided into two, The leaves I give to others, The heart I give to you.
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The next day I drove my brother to the Calvados Department where the temperatures were almost freezing! The strong winds did not make things any better and so we had to bundle up like Eskimo babies just to keep warm. Our first stop was Arromanches-les-Bains,...
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My brother and I arrived by train at the Gare de Cherbourg in the evening. After breakfast the next day, I thought we would be able to see many sights but I underestimated the amount of time it would take driving from place to place. Still, I think he...
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Getting to Château de Versailles is not difficult but you MUST know which RER train to take. Since we were staying at the Hôtel de Reims, we took Metro line 14 to Bibliothèque-François Mitterrand and then took RER commuter train C5 directly to Versailles-Rive...
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After a good night’s sleep, we woke early the next morning and went downstairs to breakfast in the hotel. Perhaps I was over ambitious but we took on the trip to the Cathedral Basilica of Saint-Denis, a place of pilgrimage and the burial place of French...
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Paris is so much nicer when you visit with a family member ! Last week, my brother visited me from the United States and I took him to see some of my favorite places in and around Île de la Cité. Of course, a three-day vacation in Paris is difficult to...
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