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Camping: Usually crowded, seldom not expensive. Nowadays France has a lot of camping car areas, at the tourist hotspots at the coast between Biarritz and the Charente with about 12 Euros per day pretty expensive. Especially when you donīt have a luxury camper with large bathroom and have to go to the dunes for some human necessities because there is no toilets at these places. Much cheaper and sometimes even free these areas become the more you get away from this hotspots be it inland or at the Channel.
Vultures: If you drive inland from the Cote Basques for about an hour into the mountains and take a break at one of these passes with spectacular view, itīs not uncommon, that these animals circle just 20 meters above you. They glide effortless with barely a move of the wings from summit to summit, always in search of some cyclists who took a hairpin with too much speed.
Food: Always a feast for the senses is a visit on the farmerīs markets, which happen regularly in this part of the year, or one of the market halls. Excellent food, often directly from the region. In all cases preferable to the – still supplied with a very wide range of good products – super-, mega- or hyper markets that kill the small local businesses. Exception: I wouldnīt touch regional products from the Cotentin peninsula, even if they look so seductive. Why? Ask the EDF and read the part about La Hague.
War: German bunkers can be found everywhere along the French Channel and Atlantic coast. But the areas close to the Belgian border and the Normandy coast between Caen and the Cotentin peninsula are special. Itīs not the uncountable war memorials, but the numerous war graveyards are depressing. And some parts of these areas just feel wrong. Something in the landscape and the villages still breathes the horror of these slaughtering.
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