Miscellany of Writings

A condensed autobiography of a varied, happy and fulfilling eighty-eight years. A first family holiday in France. Visits to a cathedral city and a seaside town. Exploring the battlefields of The Somme and Ypres Salient. An extreme winter. Taking two young grandsons for a first visit to Normandy. The end of the Great War. First-class to Nice and the Cote d'Azur. A nostalgic final visit to historic Lille and Arras. The Crusades and Knights Templar of the 11th to 13th Centuries. A fond farewell to Normandy.