Editor's blog - June

WELCOME TO THE RENDEZVOUS, the English language magazine for Basse Normandie.

Every month we will bring you local news and features as well as listings and reviews to help you get the most out of your life in France.

Want to start a blues band – or a book club? Meet others with similar interests? The Noticeboard is there for your community postings.


In Aidez Moi we help you solve your French dilemmas and My Restoration, on the back page, is a chance to see how others are managing their renovation projects.

Marketplace is the place to buy and sell, look for and offer your services - safe in the knowledge that these are LOCAL classifieds – you won’t have to drive to the Dordogne to pick up that lawnmower!

Whilst primarily aimed at English speaking Normandy residents we naturally welcome visitors to the region and French readers.

We are also delighted to have enjoyed huge support in this venture from the local French authorities who also plan to use these pages to share information that we either need or want to know.

But the success of the Rendezvous depends on our readers so do contact us with your comments, suggestions, tips, listings, ideas…

THE TEAM

The Editor, Miranda Ingram, (pictured top) spent twenty odd years on Fleet Street working for the national British dailies including the Times and Daily Mail, as a feature writer, foreign correspondent and columnist. She moved to Normandy with her two young children in 2003.
Production Manager Alexander Anichkin, reported from Britain, Japan and the US for Russia’s biggest selling daily newspaper before continuing his journalistic career in Britain and, three years ago, moving with his family to Normandy.

Alison Weatherhead, Advertising Director, graduated from Oxford with a degree in modern languages before working in media advertising for News International and Future Publishing Magazines. She has lived in Normandy since 1994 and her children were born here.

We hope that you enjoy this first issue of the Rendezvous and look forward to seeing you next month!