By the way, the Channel Caen side smells of fish and is not entirely unpleasant

Au Revoir mon ami

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Joan of Arc at the Siege of Orleans By Jules Eugène Lenepveu (French, 1819-1898) – uploaded by Tijmen Stam (User:IIVQ) – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1663843

Percheron Horse By Eponimm – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16349247

Normandy Cob By Eponimm (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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