Happy Birthday!

Festive meal with Champagne and Foie gras… (with French baguette in the background.)

Fields and fields… and more fields.

Many crops are grown in Normandy: wheat, rapeseed, field peas, sugar beet… Local soil and climatic conditions usually ensure higher yields than the national average. Most of them are exported.

Salisbury Cathedral Cloister Garden

Salisbury has one of the most magnificent cathedrals in England, a prime example of the Early English Gothic style (built 1220-58). The splendid arcaded cloister is the largest in England (58m x 190ft square) and was added in the late 13th century. The cloisters were started as a purely decorative feature only five years after