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Drop anchor in Normandy ; The Great Escape Preview of spectacular tall ships festival

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From: Birmingham Mail
Date: 20080528
Author:Ross McCarthy

THERE are fewer more pulse racing experiences than the sight of a flotilla of tall ships sailing down a river.

And if you take a trip to France this summer a treat is in store because a whole fleet of these thoroughbreds of the sea will be coming down the Seine in all their splendour, passing under the newly built Gustave Flaubert Bridge and dropping anchor at Rouen.

It is all happening between July 5-14 when the city, for the fifth time, will host the Armada with spectators lined up on the banks of the river to watch the spectacle, while over the course of the 10 days a raft of ...

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