FRANCE
Normandy Steeped in history and home to stunning golf
Normandy welcomes hundreds of visitors from all over Europe to remember the D-Day Landings, but as ROB PERKINS found out some of those will be coming to enjoy the more tranquil pursuit of golf. 20
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HE black and white photographs hanging in the hallway of the golf club are somewhat different from those usually found in such establishments. Instead of pictures honouring those golfers for deeds done on the greens and fairways of years gone by, these images invoke very different memories. The American GI holding aloft a young French girl as she smiles for the camera and waves to those soldiers who had just liberated her town; the elders greeting soldiers with glasses of wine and cigarettes and invading troops making their way tentatively through French villages nearby.
ISSUE 1 / NOVEMBER 2018
