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France is a fine place to read the Gazette 

February 15, 2025

Joni and John Custer of Lewes spent two weeks in September touring France. They visited Normandy's Operation Overlord invasion sites, including Omaha and Utah beaches, Sainte-Mère-Église, and the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. The devoted readers also spent a day at Mont-Saint-Michel and visited several châteaux in the Loire Valley. They toured Dordogne, Bordeaux, and Burgundy, where they celebrated the end of the wine harvest with vineyard workers in the village of Chablis. One of the highlights of their trip was reading the Gazette during a visit to the Lascaux Cave, a network of grottoes in Dordogne in southwestern France. Over 600 wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave, which was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. First discovered in 1940, the magnificent paintings represent large animals, typical contemporary fauna in the area during the Paleolithic era, and are generally accepted as having been painted 17,000 years ago.

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