Living on the ramparts

Houses in Falaise, as in many other old French towns, often sit on top of what remains of the medieval city walls.
To see the famous Falaise castle where William the Conqueror was born click here

Swans in Love

A fitting image for Valentine's: two swans with heart-shaped wings on the village pond at Le Chefresne, near Villedieu-les-Poeles.

Photos by Ray Clancy, Villedieu-les-Poeles
www.gotchaphoto-design.com

St Peter's Abbey in Calvados

A honey-coloured gothic collonnade lines the inner court of Abbaye Saint Pierre in Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives with a couple of decaying sculptures.

Save the birds

What to do if you find a sea bird on the beach exhausted after a Winter storm?
Try to recover the bird without panicking it, touching it as little as possible with your bare hands, and put it in a cardboard box with newspaper. This will help it to de-stress.
If you are in Calvados you should telephone M. Gérard Bertran at the Dame Blanche, a small country wildlife park at St Julien de Mailloc near Orbec in the pays d’Auge 02 31 63 91 70.
If you are in the Manche, Nicole Girard acts as coordinator. Her number in Cherbourg is 02 33 22 93 02.

Read more in the February issue of the Rendezvous magazine, on sale now.

Photo of a rescued gannet sent by Robin Rundle,
Groupe ornithologique normand
robinrundle@club-internet.fr