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August 14th, 2009, 02:32 AM
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Alençon : Normandy (France)
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  Highways are what I like most in France : it transforms the country into a zoo, "don't feed the animals !". Rouessé-Fontaine is just before the exit to Alençon, still in Sarthe (former County of Maine) as Alençon used to be a border-town for Normandy. image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Reaching the suburb of Montsort and entering Normandy : image hosted on flickr  Some pics from the centre-town : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  The Castle of the Dukes : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Rue de la Cave aux Boeufs : image hosted on flickr  Rue aux Scieurs : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Around Notre-Dame : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Around the Town Hall and the Castle : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Going North towards Caen ! Valframbert : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Sées from the National Road : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Taking a portion of highway : image hosted on flickr  Argentan in the distance : image hosted on flickr  The mighty A88 ! Unfinished ... it's time to drive on départementales ... image hosted on flickr  The last village of Orne before the Plain of Caen : Nécy image hosted on flickr  A brief glimpse at the impressive Plain of Caen (Catomagus) in Calvados : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Finally Caen ! image hosted on flickr  Next : the beaches of the Normandy landings. image hosted on flickr 
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August 14th, 2009, 11:50 AM
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Looks a very attractive and interesting place.
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August 14th, 2009, 04:19 PM
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Great shots, and it looks really pretty. My surname is from Normandy, so I've always wanted to visit the place! Been in France lots of times, but never managed to make it to this region
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August 14th, 2009, 05:05 PM
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To be frank, the modern Orne département is not really what people associate with Normandy : in many ways, "Orne" (Alençon, Argentan, Sées, ...) is still part of the Western French mosaic. I'll soon post some pics of "archetypal" Normandy (modern départements of Manche and Calvados) : you'll get to see the difference.
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August 14th, 2009, 10:37 PM
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Giri is back?
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August 15th, 2009, 01:37 AM
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Very nice place!
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