NORMANDY: FRANCE WITHOUT THE CROWDS.(Sunday Magazine/Travel)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | November 9, 1997 | Copyright

Byline: B.J. Cutler Scripps Howard News Service

My wife, Carol, a cookbook author and travel writer, had been working hard and needed a vacation. She issued this challenge:

``I want a week in France without setting foot in Paris. I've had it with traffic jams, honking horns, busy sidewalks and crowded museums. What can you come up with?''

I came up with France's northern province of Normandy, filled with ancient churches, castles, World War II landing beaches and military cemeteries and such creature comforts as smart summer resorts, good food, ...

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