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A wonderful vacation place
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This can be a touristic place told a local guy (over 2milj vistors/year)
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Wonderful landscape!!!
Les Impressionnistes à Etretat.
breughel Says: Les tables de lecture sur la promenade de mer avec des reproductions de tableaux réalisés à cet endroit par des maîtres de l'Impressionisme comme Claude Monet sont là pour rappeler aux visiteurs que la Côte Normande de Dieppe à Honfleur a été un des berceaux de...
La géologie des falaises - geology of the cliffs.
breughel Says: Les falaises d'Etretat attirent des amateurs de géologie et de minéralogie. Si c'est votre hobby et si vous comprenez le français il y a un exposé scientifique très détaillé sur Google:"À la découverte géologique des falaises d’Étretat" par Bernard Hoyez de l'Université du...
Les plaisirs - The pleasures of the pebble beach.
breughel Says: Les "plaisirs" de la plage à galets.Vu de la promenade du "perrey" la plage de galets parait très acceuillante. Les galets sont ronds, de dimensions égales et très propres. Cependant leur dureté vous abime les pieds, et pour s'asseoir ou se coucher il vaut mieux avoir des...
breughel Says: La première chose que fait tout visiteur, après avoir parqué sa voiture, ce qui peut être problématique, c'est de monter au "Perrey" c'est-à-dire la promenade du bord de mer pour y admirer les falaises d'Aval à gauche, d'Amont à droite.Dans les ports de pêche du Pays de...
l' Huitrière: Seafood and fish.
breughel Says: This restaurant was recommended by the owner of our hotel-restaurant in Sassetot and it was a very good choice both for its excellent location on the seafront promenade of Etretat and the quality of what we tasted. In addition the prices are reasonable. The restaurant has...
Le Repaire des Pirates: Great place to enjoy the view
sue_stone Says: On our brief visit to Etretat we were looking for somewhere to have afternoon tea. There were a few cafés/restaurants along the sea front, offering views of the cliffs. We decided on Le Repaire des Pirates, as there was a table by the edge with the best view, and it wasn't...
aemilys Says: Well, it's not Las Vegas but there is a Casino in Etretat. I didn't actually visit but on my way back home on the bus there were some cute little old ladies talking about how they were going to have to eat potatoes for the whole rest of the week.I think its mostly slot...
Renteboy Says: The only thing that crosses my mind is that there is a Casino at the beach. Beside a dozen restaurants there aren’t any real pubs nether, so you might get stuck in your restaurant or hotel after all. I didn’t entered the Casino but that’s are there was.All I can say about...
breughel Says: Getting at Etretat is not difficult; from the north-east it is by the D940 coming from Fécamp, or by the same D940 when coming from Le Havre in the south.For us begin May on a week day parking at the nearest parking of the beach was easy at 11 h but at 14 h this pay parking...
sue_stone Says: In June/July 2006 we had a 9 day driving holiday in France. We caught a car ferry from Dover to Calais, drove down through Normandy, popped into Brittany and then caught the ferry back to Dover from Boulogne-sur-Mer.We chose to take our own car over, as the cost of the ferry...
La Maison de Calvados: Calvados and souvenirs
aemilys Says: This is a really friendly little shop in the covered market. The guy behind the counter was helpful and gave me some good suggestions on what to buy.He also shared several interesting cocktail recipes and explained how to use the Pommeau in cooking. I didn't take notes so...
Ferme la Valaine: Goat cheese and more
aemilys Says: Well perhaps here is the proof that just one weekend in Etretat is not enough. I had planned to visit this farm where they raise goats and make cheese and other goat milk products; they even do chocolates. Unfortunately I didn't have the time and so I've put it first on my...
Renteboy Says: The local cheese from Normandy is called "Neufchâtel"I'm not that great cheese freak, but I must tell I liked this one. It has a very sharp noise and taste. As strong it is in the mouth as smooth the aftertaste asks for more :-)
breughel Says: Danger of falling stones. Do not walk under the cliffs.At the end of the seafront promenade "du perrey" the warning panels are fixed on a bunker from the WW II "Atlantic Wall" defending the beach from a landing by sea by the Allied forces. There is also a very useful panel...
breughel Says: Gulls can be rather annoying once they become too familiar with humans, especially tourists eating fish and chips near the beach. In Etretat as nobody eats fish and chips on the promenade they behave in a quiet way and seem not to be a nuisance.Giving them anything to eat is...
breughel Says: Blocks fallen from the cliff are rolled by the waves, losing their matrix of chalk and are transformed into pebbles. Knapped the flint can be white or black and decorate house fronts. Until the begin of the 20th c. thousand tons of pebbles were collected by hand on the...
Renteboy Says: Well, I do have to tell you I’ve got a bad after taste in finding a nice drinking place. In the first “Restaurant – Bar” place they direct us to a … large table for 15 people in the middle of the room when there were dozens of cosy spots at the window free, so I refused to...
Renteboy Says: Once you reached to end of the golf terrain you can enter a small path on the left (which eventually is the border of that golf terrain). Go all the way until a T crossing. If you go left you have to keep on “left-ing” whenever you can and you will end up Etretat village...
Find the stairway to walk down the cliff
Renteboy Says: Once you passed the Chapel at the East of Etretat, you will find a sign telling you to watch out for falling rocks! There is a stairway that takes you all the way down to the sea ... and gives you the opportunity to carve the name of your loved one in the rocks...
Chapel La Notre Dame-de-la-Garde
Renteboy Says: The Chapel was build in 1854. During the second world war this chapel was dynamited in august 1942 but was rebuild in that same month 8 years later. I personally find the new one much prettier that the old one (see photo’s)
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The only thing that crosses my mind is that there is a Casino at the beach. Beside a dozen restaurants there aren’t any real pubs nether, so you might get stuck...
Q: i went to etretat once and saw a very old wooden fronted hotel on the main street. does anyone know its name? thanks, karen
A: Hey La Salamandre is the one on the bottom of this page... http://www.virtualtourist.com/m/4e0bc/1e68c/ Success P
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November 11 is a holiday in France so I've got the day off and a 3-day weekend. This is my last chance to get out of the city until next year so I've decided to revisit Etretat. I've been before but...
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Please find my journal I wrote during my weekend Etretat. It is now Friday evening and we are having a break in our residence so it is the ideal opportunity to write something about this quite but......
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From Impressionism to reality.
Ma connaissance d'Etretat était celle des tableaux de peintres impressionnistes vus dans divers musées. Les falaises d'Etretat comptent probablement parmi les sujets maritimes les plus souvent évoqués...
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The wonderful cliffs of Etretat
The town of Etretat is best known for its cliffs, including a famous natural arch. These cliffs and the associated resort beach attracted artists including Eugène Boudin, Gustave Courbet and Claude......
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Apart from being one of the prettiest places to watch the solar eclipse of August 1999, this coastal town attracts visitors all year long as it is well known for the clay cliffs eroded into several......
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