Following the French model of using up as much holiday as you possibly can in May, we have been away on holiday again, this time in Normandy. This is a picture of a little village in the Pays d'Auge of Normandy. It looks like a piece of England doesn't it? Visiting this region reminded me of a great bande desinée (comic book) I read a while back by Posy Simmons called 'Gemma Bovery'. It is a satire on everything that can go wrong when an English couple buy a cottage in Normandy. The husband goes native, the wife falls for the son of the local comte and the neighbour lusts after her from a distance. And it's all constructed along the lines of Flaubert's 'Emma Bovary'. A great read
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