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Oct 2023
51m 31s

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, b...

SHARON HANDY
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Let’s continue this sleepy journey through the mountains of France and encounter cantankerous farmers, lovely vistas, and the legendary Beast of Gevaudan, which ends rather anti-climactically, as legends so often do.

 

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