On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 Sacha wrote:

On 2009-10-29 13:35:10 +0000, David Rance
said:

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 Sacha wrote:

Mmm .. you'd think French lavender would be able to cope with
French
weather, wouldn't you?! OTOH, France is somewhat bigger than GB and we
have a varied enough temperature range. Perhaps we're just asking
too much
of it.
On the way back from holiday this summer I took the train from Nice to
Paris, and it was really odd watching the landscape slowly morph from
Med-looking up to English-looking the nearer Paris we got. You could
actually see the shape and colour of the flora getting more ... homely
as you watched.
It's strange you say that because last time we were in France, I
said to my husband that I feel more 'at home' in Brittany and Normady
I do in e.g. Provence. I love the sunshine and general ambience of
Provence but it does feel more 'foreign'. Partly - for me - that's
because I've sailed to the Breton and Normandy coasts quite often but
also because long-ago genes are probably still swishing around but
Ray felt exactly the same and I think it must be because the
landscape etc. becomes more familiar.
Exactly that. I'm a native of the Chilterns and now have a house in
the Suisse Normande. The countryside of both is very similar with
beech woods, etc.
David

Brittany is very like Jersey as to coastline and Normandy is another
version of Devon.

Hmm, well I always associate Devon with red sandstone but I suppose that
west Devon and Cornwall have similar stone to the Suisse Normande.

David

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