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Slow Tourism in Cherbourg

 Slow Tourism The ports on the English Channel, or La Manche if you're sailing from France, remain unexplored by motorists so we began a research project to slow down the tourism to enjoy the journey itself. First, leave the car behind and take the train. Brittany Ferries sail from three key ports on the south coast of England: Plymouth, Poole and Portsmouth with 5 destinations: Roscoff, Saint-Malo, Cherbourg, Ouistreham and Le Havre. As researchers, we settled on Cherbourg since my only recollection of the port was driving through it very quickly from the ferry. First, though, was the library research. The outcome from this study of archives was a book chapter on Cherbourg and perry for Palgrave Macmillan. Cherbourg - Perry and Roland Barthes Derek uncovered archive material on the production of a regional drink in Normandy made from pears. As a speciality drink, perry seems missing from the ethnobotany of Cherbourg. Although during the research we did find a company called M...

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