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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
Outside the village of Écausseville, in the Cotentin
peninsular, you can see the immense silhouette of
France’s only surviving air balloon hangar.
Go inside and you will be overwhelmed by the sheer
immensity of the structure. Shout at the top of your lungs and
enjoy the echo.
An early example of a reinforced concrete structure, the
hangar was originally built to deal with the submarine
menace in the Channel. Since then it has sheltered the French
navy, the German army and the American army after D-Day.
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
A newly formed group of Cancer Support France now meets
once a month. It is training members to become active
listeners and would welcome more membership from any
English speakers in Basse-Normandie, although membership
so far includes people from Rennes and Caen.
The group is holding a coffee meeting in Ducey in
February, date and place to be confirmed.
For more information please contact Jenny luck on
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Tel. 02 33 60 27 82 or Heather Farrer:
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Tel. 02 33 49 09 71.
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
Every Monday afternoon retired Englishman Paul Glaister-
Longhurst from Estréelles (62) gives French lessons, free, at
his home. Paul and his wife Lalagé moved here 19 years ago.
“I love all things French and really enjoy sharing my
knowledge of the language. I like helping people to settle in
and cope with the problems of living in a foreign country.”
His practical method of teaching has attracted so many
that when the Anglican church made an appeal for its
congregation to help boost the chaplaincy funds, Vivienne and
Lee Barton thought it would be a great way of helping the
English community and the church by offering their own
house at Cavron-Saint-Martin (62) on Monday mornings.
They asked Paul to give lessons at a donation fee of €5 per
student. “Avec plaisir,” said Paul – what a star!
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
Dunkerque’s three-month-long carnival is just getting into the swing. The carousers initiate Marilyn Catchpole-Dossat into their weird traditions…
Dunkerque
carnival runs
for almost
three months and
gets bigger and
crazier each year.
The madness
officially started this
year at midnight, on
Saturday January 12,
with the opening
ball, the Bal du Chat
Noir, at the Kursaal
in Dunkerque. But
already that
afternoon, a sleepy
suburb of the town
had come alive with
the throbbing of
drums and the whistling of fifes.
The good folk of Bierne took to the
streets and exchanged the traditional
greetings in Dunkerquois. Dressed up
as anything from Amazons and sailors
to animals, many of the young men
favour the classic glad rags of grunge
drag, with hats jingling with key-rings,
photos, soft toys and bottle tops etc.
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
Paris’ Museum of Decorative Arts revisits some of the most
memorable French television adverts in an exhibition
running this month. The nostalgic retrospective comes amid
plans for a broadcasting reform and the President’s
announcement that ads will be axed on the main national TV
channels.
The exhibition ‘La Pub s’anime – le film publicitaire en
France 1912 - 2007’ includes a score of video clips and
advertising memorabilia arranged by decade – the chance to
rediscover the famous slogans and catchy jingles which make
up France’s advertising heritage.
Until April 6. Les Arts Décoratifs, musée de la Publicité, 107 rue
de Rivoli,
Paris 1st. 01 44 55 57 50 www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr
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