How does Sedaris describe Normandy in Theft by Finding: Diaries?

Sedaris writes, “While in Normandy we drove through the countryside, sometimes with a mission and sometimes aimlessly. The villages looked like I thought they would— tidy yards, stone houses, window boxes spilling over with flowers. Hugh’s house is in La Bagotière, a hamlet. Maybe twenty-five or thirty people live there, nobody fancy” (289).