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Sat 12 Dec 2008A new life for an old chestnut
Go Green: Catherine Mackis transported back to her childhood by a stay in a tree house in Normandy's cider country
PEOPLE FIND SOLACE in different ways. Some escape to islands, others to mountains. But I have always had a thing about trees. A spot high in the branches of an ancient chestnut was my favourite getaway as a young child at boarding school. Leaves or no leaves, the tree was always a place to hide or take stock of the world rushing around below me. But I have never gone as far as hugging one, never mind sleeping in one. Until I discovered a perch extraordinaire. Far from the Belfast branches of my distant past, this old chestnut was hidden in a meadow of Le Perche natural park, in the Orne region of Normandy.
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