Sainte-Agnès

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Sainte-Agnès

‘Make sure you get up to Sainte-Agnès’, Owen Marshall told me. He lived in Menton as the Katherine Mansfield Fellow in 1996, writing the manuscript of his novel Harlequin Rex. Today we took his advice, and it was very good advice indeed. We caught a bus to this hilltop medieval village, one of several so-called perched villages in the area behind Menton.  At 800 metres above sea level, Sainte-Agnès is the highest coastal village in France. As the crow flies it’s less than five...