Revisiting Marie Claire
Jul 28th, 2009 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Personal Columns“You live in a fancy apartment
Off the Boulevard Saint-Michel
Where you keep your Rolling Stones records
And a friend of Sacha Distel, yes you do”
It’s that time again. The car is packed and the green fields of France beckon.
The journey this year includes the Green Fields of France (and those of Belgium); paying respects to young Willie McBride, along with all of his other comrades; standing at the Menin Gate in Ypres for the sounding of Last Post; pondering the rolling fields of Thiepval where a …