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		<title>France Breathalyser Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[France Breathalyser Law &#8211; Final Decision, Sort Of! The on-off breathalyser law is now officially ON &#8211; except that there&#8217;s no sanction for failure to have one and the Interior Minister thinks they are a waste of time! &#8220;tout automobiliste est tenu de posséder un éthylotest à bord de son véhicule. Tout en maintenant cette [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visitnormandy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5860005&#038;post=2749&#038;subd=visitnormandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diversions around Rouen &#8211; Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diversions around Rouen due to Bridge Closure First published November 9 2012, updated and republished February 28 2013. Until further notice there are diversions around Rouen, heading both north and south, as the main bridge for vehicles over the Seine at Rouen has been closed due to an accident. In October 2012 a petrol tanker [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visitnormandy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5860005&#038;post=2747&#038;subd=visitnormandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monty Don&#8217;s French Gardens &#8211; Champ de Bataille</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil in Normandy-Loire Country</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monty Don &#8211; French Gardens &#160; Monty Don at Champ de Bataille Gardens The Chateau du Champ de Bataille boasts a magnificent garden based in part on the classic French style and heavily influenced by drawings by the French designer le Notre &#8211; hence it&#8217;s inclusion in Monty Don&#8216;s first programme of his new BBC2 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visitnormandy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5860005&#038;post=2711&#038;subd=visitnormandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Normandy-Loire Blog Year 2012 in Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 79,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visitnormandy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5860005&#038;post=2709&#038;subd=visitnormandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diversions around Rouen due to Bridge Closure Until further notice there are diversions around Rouen, heading both north and south, as the main bridge for vehicles over the Seine at Rouen has been closed due to an accident.  In October 2012 a petrol tanker crossed the central reservation, crashed and caught fire on the Pont [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visitnormandy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5860005&#038;post=2684&#038;subd=visitnormandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brocantes &amp; Antiques around Alençon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brocantes &#38; Antiques around Alençon As we slip into the cooler days of a southern Normandy autumn and there is less work to do in the garden, we have been nosing around brocantes and antique shops near Alençon. Earlier this year we focussed on the brocantes of the Perche region to our immediate east, so [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visitnormandy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5860005&#038;post=2645&#038;subd=visitnormandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Esprit Antique&#8221; &#8211; Antiques and Architectural Salvage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the way back from visiting the garden &#8220;Interieur à Ciel Ouvert&#8221; on Sunday afternoon we passed near Radon, on the main road from Sées to Alençon (D438) in south-east Normandy.  By the roadside we spotted a garden in which there was a massive statue of a horse and a couple of forged iron gazebos, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visitnormandy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5860005&#038;post=2603&#038;subd=visitnormandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Garden &#8220;Intérieur à Ciel Ouvert&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garden &#8220;Intérieur à Ciel Ouvert&#8221; Very late in the season, we took advantage of a rare Sunday off to visit this new garden &#8220;Intérieur à Ciel Ouvert&#8220;, a little over an hour away at Athis de l&#8217;Orne, which we heard of only this summer while flicking through the brochure &#8220;Gardens of Normandy 2012&#8243;. When we [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visitnormandy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5860005&#038;post=2594&#038;subd=visitnormandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birding in Normandy &#38; Pays de la Loire I&#8217;ll admit it  &#8211; this is not going to be a long treatise on birdwatching in the region. Suffice it to say that wherever you go in the region, given time and patience you&#8217;ll see something interesting in the air or on the ground and covered in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visitnormandy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5860005&#038;post=2585&#038;subd=visitnormandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art at the Manoir de Couesme Every September the Manoir de Couesme here in Ancinnes hosts a month-long art and sculpture exhibition by a featured artist. 2012 is the turn of Bap, a sculptor and artist originally from Dijon. Today Jude and I went to see the exhibition, which as usual is arranged around the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visitnormandy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5860005&#038;post=2563&#038;subd=visitnormandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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