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On your bike now!
| 27/02/2010
Winter is receding and spring is in the air. Or, in Dieppe, it seems like that, as breezy March knocks freezing February off the pedestal. So, time to think of getting into the open air. And why no...
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A town of four ports
| 09/02/2010
The French are funny in lots of ways. They like, for example, to refer to places and peoples by ‘sobriquets’, or nicknames. So every French person (but hardly any British person) knows that l’Hexag...
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Democracy, Dieppe style
| 06/02/2010
You can find the ‘democracy shop’ in Dieppe just off the Place Nationale, opposite the great pile of St Jacques Church and next door to the launderette. Above the entrance are the words ‘Service Dé...
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Do we need to eat green beans in midwinter?
| 20/12/2009
And are those tasteless squitty strawberries so essential on our plates out of season? There was a time when winter produce went with winter, and summer produce rhymed with summer. But nowadays (if...
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Christmas is different in Dieppe
| 29/11/2009
Christmas arrives later in Dieppe - and elsewhere in France - than it does in Britain. That is to say, shop windows are not adorned with unseasonal glittery goods as they are in Oxford Street, Lond...
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