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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
June is the month of the muddy annual race against the tide across the Somme bay. Ann Thomas meets two British devotees.
On June 29, the Somme bay will host up to 7,000
runners participating in the annual fun run. This
unique 15km race starts from Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme
then heads for Le Crotoy, then back again before the tide
comes in. The whole area drains itself almost dry after the
tide goes out leaving a maze of gullies and crevasses, and the
runners, from their vantage point at Saint-Valéry, have to
navigate their way across while remembering that some of
the crevasses can be up to a metre deep.
British brothers Adam and Ben Mellor will be taking part
for the third time. They first agreed to enter the race as fun
runners as neither brother had ever jogged or participated in
any such event. Their intentions were merely to survive, but
of course coming in first of the two was a natural guiding
factor as well.
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
Left to right: Charlie Disco, Paul,Vivienne, Lalage
Despite the torrential rain, more than 100 people, including
Dominique Szczepanski, mayor of Estréelles, and his
family, met on May 17 to celebrate the new election as
councillor of language teacher Paul Glaister and his success
in bringing together the British and French communities.
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
Until 30/06 Le Touquet (62)
‘Battle rock’. Rock band competition, local young groups playing in cafés, salle de fêtes and in the streets.
03 21 06 72 00,
www.letouquet.com
07-08/06 Gravelines (59)
Country music at Sportica. Among the performers are Boomer Mc Lennan & Cheyne Pride from the USA,
Raising Cain & Alive & Pickin from the UK and Bus Stop from France.
03 28 65 35 00, 03 28 23 41 10
www.sportica.fr
www.opalenews.com
20-29/06 Arras (62)
Traditional French vocal music.
06 70 70 99 07,
www.fete-de-la-musique.cityvox.com,
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27-29/06 Maubeuge (59)
27-28: Pop & Rock at Le Manège, Maubeuge. Groups include Cali, Hocus Pocus, DEUS, Air Traffic, 29:
French vocal music françaises.groups include B. Lavilliers and Bumcello,
03 27 62 11 93 www.lemanege.com
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An association has been set up in Troyes, Aube, and is now
spreading all over France to teach children, aged nine to 14,
traditional crafts and skills in small groups of two or three.
Skills learnt include tiling, carpentry, roof timber
construction, masonry and plumbing.
Anyone interested should contact L’Union des associations
l’outil en main,
22 rue des Filles-Dieu 03 25 73 74 83
www.louitlenmain.asso.fr
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
One hundred years since the reconstruction of the
medieval Château of Haut-Koenigsbourg, half a
million visitors per year clamber round the spectacular
battlements towering 800 metres over the plain of Alsace on
the rocky crag Le Staufenberg. It is one year since the
département of the Bas Rhin – the northern half of Alsace –
bought the site for a symbolic euro from the state which had
held it since France ended the 48-year German occupation.
This simple administrative change has transformed the site.
Under the state, all the profits were shared with the other,
mostly loss-making, national monuments. Now the profits
are going into much-needed improvements and the entry
figures are already climbing.
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