Normandy in 4 days

White chalk arches that drew Monet and Courbet; walk up the Amont or Aval cliff for the view of the Manneporte and the Needle.

Tall, narrow slate-hung houses around the old harbour, and Sainte-Catherine, a church built entirely of wood by the town's shipwrights.

The boardwalk of striped parasols and Art Deco beach huts named after American film stars, with the casino and grand hotels behind.

Nearly 70 metres of embroidery, more than 900 years old, telling William's conquest of England in 1066 scene by scene.

From Omaha Beach to Arromanches, with the American cemetery at Colleville above the sand and the craters and bunkers of the Pointe du Hoc.

The cathedral Monet painted more than thirty times, with France's tallest spire, the Gros-Horloge clock and the square where Joan of Arc was burned.

Where Monet lived for 43 years: the flower garden before the pink house, then the water garden with the Japanese bridge and the water lilies.