THE SUMMER OF LOVE

My French adventures in 1967 - The Summer of Love

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1967 - THE SUMMER OF LOVE - LA BELLE BRETAGNE

EN FAMILLE I sat rather trepidaciously on the train heading for Saint Brieuc, in Brittany, where I was to be met and taken to my next host family in...

1967 - THE SUMMER OF LOVE - LILLE UNIVERSITY

SETTLING IN Having just about survived the crossing from Dover to Boulogne-sur-mer, a great trial for me, always having hated and feared water and...
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1967 - THE SUMMER OF LOVE - PARIS HERE I COME

CITY OF DREAMS The train ferrying me from Brittany to Paris was quite crowded, much more like the train journeys through my home town of London. I...

1967 - THE SUMMER OF LOVE - THE ROAD TO FREEDOM

‘A’Levels were just a year away, and, as was usual for Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham Girls’School, an old and well-respected Grammar School in New...
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1967 - THE SUMMER OF LOVE - TOURING TOURAINE

THE LOIRE VALLEY Eventually the Cours de vacances drew to an exhausting close, and It was with a certain amount of trepidation that I set off with a...