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Set in the grounds of a château, Castel Camping le Château de Lez Eaux lies in a rural situation just off the main route south, under two hours from Cherbourg. Of the 122 touring pitches, all with electricity (10A, Europlug) and 87 with water and drainage. Most of the pitches are good-sized, partly separated by trees and shrubs on flat or slightly sloping, grassy ground overlooking Normandy farmland and a small fishing lake.
A friendly, family site, l’Anse du Brick overlooks a picturesque bay on the northern tip of the Cotentin Peninsula, eight kilometres east of Cherbourg port. This quality site makes a pleasant night halt or an ideal longer stay destination for those not wishing to travel too far. Its pleasing location offers direct access to a small sandy beach and a woodland walk. This is a mature, terraced site with magnificent views from certain pitches. Tarmac roads lead to the 230 touring pitches (all with 10A electricity) which are level, separated and mostly well shaded by many trees, bushes and shrubs. There are also mobile homes for rent.
Camping Sandaya Mont-Saint-Michel is a campsite located in Genêts, Normandy, France. It is a great place to stay if you are looking for a relaxing vacation with plenty of activities to enjoy on-site. The campsite is just a short drive from the world-famous Mont Saint-Michel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. On site, you will find 30 touring pitches with electric hook-up points available, which are delimited by mature hedging giving a sense of privacy to each pitch.
Camping de la Plage is located near the north coast of Cotentin in Normandy. You'll soon feel at home with pitches among flowers and a few luxury glamping tents. A few minutes walk, and you're on the sandy beach of the jagged coastline of the English Channel.
L'Ésperance is in Normandy, Manche, and is located near the beach and the English Channel. It's a perfect place for families with children to enjoy a relaxing vacation. The site has 135 grass pitches, of which 35 are for touring units, and it has a 10-anp hook-up point. Seventy-nine seasonal and 21 mobile homes or chalets are available to hire. The campsite has a landscaped design, with touring pitches delimited by conifer trees. This creates a sense of privacy and seclusion for campers.
Le Grand Large is a well-established, quality family site with direct access to a long sandy beach within 20 km. drive of Cherbourg. It is a neat site with about 120 touring pitches divided and separated by hedging, giving an orderly, well-laid-out, attractive appearance. Almost all have electricity (10A Europlug), water and drainage. There are 50 mobile homes to rent in three separate areas.
This welcoming, environmentally friendly, family-run site, close to Cherbourg and Caen, is situated just across the road from a long sandy beach. It is also close to Utah beach and is ideally located for those wishing to visit the many museums, landing beaches and remembrance gardens of WW2. On flat, quite open ground, the site has 102 good sized pitches on level grass, most with 6/10A electricity (Europlug). Eight extra large pitches are available, each with private sanitary facilities. Mature hedges separate the well-kept pitches, and the site is decorated with flowering shrubs.
Camping de Collignon is only 5 minutes away from the ferry port in Cherbourg. Although it is so close to the port, it is set right by a very nice sandy beach, just behind some grassy dunes. This is site where you can choose a pitch and check in later if the reception is closed. Some pitches are completely private and others in little enclosures of three or four edged by attractive trees and shrubs. There is a small shop in reception where you can order bread for the morning. People staying at the site can also get a free ticket for the municipal pool next door- this is indoor but has a large pool for length swimming as well as paddling pool and a leisure pool with 2 flumes and a spa bath. It takes a couple of minutes’ walk over the grass dunes to get onto the beach where there is a water sports school and a supervised swimming area. The dunes have been developed by the local council as an amenities area with sports courts, fitness equipment and footpaths and this is a nice place for an evening stroll with a view out to sea. The site has 83 touring pitches, some seasonal.
Camping La Baie des Veys is a 3-star campsite in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, France. It is close to several shops and restaurants and easily accessible to some of the area's most popular attractions, such as Sainte-Mère-Eglise, Saint-Côme-du-Mont, and the D-Day beaches. On-site, there are 58 touring itches with electric hook-up points. All pitches are flat and separated by mature hedging, giving privacy.
This is an attractive and very friendly site with a swimming pool complex that has a four-lane slide, a jacuzzi and a paddling pool. L’Etang des Haizes has 160 good sized pitches, of which 100 are for touring units, on reasonably level ground and all with electricity (10A Europlug). They are set in a mixture of conifers, orchard and shrubbery, with some very attractive, slightly smaller pitches overlooking the lake and 60 mobile homes inconspicuously sited. The fenced lake has a small beach (swimming is permitted), with ducks and pedaloes, and offers good coarse fishing for huge carp (we are told!). There are good toilet and shower facilities where children and campers with disabilities are well catered for.
Camping Les Chevaliers de Malte (The Knights of Malta). Is near Villedieu-les-Poêles, a historic city of bell foundry and copper smithing. The site is proof that a city site can also be very green and doesn't have to be full of asphalt. The 78 spacious grass touring pitches with 8/16-amp hook-up points. The pitches are situated on well-tended lawns and are separated by mature hedging, giving privacy during your stay here. The site also has 18 mobile homes or tipi tents available to hire.
The staff at this beautiful campsite offer a warm welcome to visitors. Situated on the edge of the little town of Pontorson, 9 km. from Mont Saint-Michel, the site has 152 pitches, including 118 for touring units. Most have 16A electricity and 24 really large pitches, some of which have water and drainage. Excellent private sanitary facilities are also available on 12 luxury pitches. The comfortable reception area incorporates a pleasant bar where breakfast is served. This opens onto the swimming pool terrace. The site is attractively laid out and includes a Japanese garden. Haliotis (which takes its name from a large shell) is next to the River Couesnon, and it is possible to walk, cycle and canoe along the river to Mont Saint-Michel, though an auberge at half-distance could provide a welcome break!
Le Haut Dick is located at the heart of the south Cotentin peninsula. On the banks of the Haut Dick canal, this is a simple campsite but has a pleasant bar/snack bar and a well maintained sanitary block. It comprises 100 good sized pitches which are flat, grassy and well divided by hedges, 71 for touring, with 10A electricity. The town of Carentan is a ten-minute walk away and features a brand new pool complex. This site is an ideal departure point for visiting the World War Two Landing Beaches and the Marais of the Cotentin Peninsula.
This delightful, quiet site is located in a peaceful, rural setting, yet is only 8 km. from the busy tourist attraction of Mont Saint-Michel. The site has 100 pitches which include 50 for touring units and 50 for mobile homes to rent. Electricity connections (6/10A) are available to all pitches and many trees and shrubs provide a good amount of shade. A welcoming reception has a terrace overlooking the pool. The site slopes gently down to a small enclosure of farm animals kept to entertain children and adults alike. Here you can meet Nestor and Napoléon, the donkeys, and Linotte the mare, as well as miniature goats, sheep, chickens and ducks. The owners intend to maintain a quiet and peaceful site, hence there are no discos or organised clubs.
This tranquil site, on the edge of the small village of Pontaubault, is in a secluded, rural setting, surrounded by high hedges and many mature trees. Just a 200 m. walk away is the River Sélune with its wide grass banks and picnic tables where you can sit, relax and enjoy the fine view of the river with its multi-arched stone bridge. Of the 62 gently sloping, grass touring pitches, 48 have 10A electricity. Run by David and Vanessa, Camping Vallée de la Sélune provides an ideal location for those seeking a quiet, stress free family holiday without discos clubs and pools. There is a shop in the village, but no longer any restaurants. A supermarket is a short drive away.
Camping Vagues Océanes Les Îles is an ideal family getaway 15 minutes from the seaside resort of Granville, close to Mont-Saint-Michel. There are 69 spacious touring pitches most with private toilet facilities and electric hook-up point. Heated aquatic area with outdoor and indoor pools. pool, children’s pool and jacuzzi. Activities and entertainment for all the family. Mobile homes also available to hire.
Le Ranch offers nature in the wild in an exceptional setting. Situated on the west coast of the Cotentin Le Ranch, in front of the Channel Islands, this family run site offers direct access to a long and wide sandy beach that extends to some 3 km. The site covers 4 hectares with 143 plots (30 fixed) and they all have 10A electricity, water and waste water. Booking is essential in high season. There is a pool complex with slides, an indoor and outdoor pool, and many areas for both children and adults to play. Here you will also find a bar-restaurant, a grocer's shop and bakery on site. Adults can enjoy the fitness room and sauna, and there is WiFi access all over the site.
This is a typically unpretentious, basic municipal site providing 60 pitches set on level grass amongst apple trees, with hard access roads. All pitches have electricity (10A). The site is next to tennis courts and a sports centre. The site is ideally situated within about five minutes level walking distance of the centre of this historic little town (the first town in France to be liberated by the Allies), with its war museum and strategic position near the Normandy landing beaches. Look for the parachutist hanging from the 13th-century church. Reception is open limited hours (09.00-12.00, and 17.30-20.30).
La Vanlée is a large, traditional municipal site with direct access to a huge sandy beach and dunes. Recently taken over by a new resident manager, the site is undergoing modernisation (new 10A electricity supply on a third of the site and a new reception). All of the 466 marked pitches are on open, sandy grass, some on uneven but firm ground. The roads are tarmac, but driving for some distance over grass is required to reach most pitches, giving a feeling of wild camping. Some 25 per cent of the site is occupied by semi-residential caravans, but there is usually plenty of free space away from them.
Le Mont Saint-Michel has 210 touring pitches in total. In one area, 45 pitches are hedged and have ample shade provided by mature trees; a further large area, on the other side of the road, is more open and for motorhomes (20A electricity connections). The site is in the centre of a very busy tourist complex that has everything you may require, from supermarkets and gift shops to restaurants and bars. Although perhaps not suitable for a long stay, if you are looking for an overnight stop as near as possible to Mont Saint-Michel, then this site may be useful.
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Normandy
A striking area whose beauty lies not only in the landscape, Normandy is famed for its seafood and Celtic tradition. Certain areas of Normandy remain untouched and wonderfully old fashioned.
Just across the Channel, Normandy’s history is inextricably linked with our own in the UK, from 1066 and all that to the Normandy Landings of D-Day in June 1944. Yet, from the stylish seaside resorts to the old half-timbered manor houses surrounded by lush pastures and cider orchards, Normandy still seems largely untouched by the rigours of the modern world.
Laying on the upper edge of France, Normandy has a striking and wonderfully old-fashioned feel characterised by a craggy granite coastline, quiet villages and unspoilt countryside. It’s a place with a noticeable artistic streak: Monet’s garden at Giverny is located here, and the fine Gothic architecture of Rouen Cathedral was the subject of a number of the impressionist’s paintings. Towns such as Honfleur typify the picturesque maritime charm of its ports.
The Manche department is the finger that points across the Channel at Britain, and it stretches from the port of Cherbourg on the tip of the Cotentin peninsula to the Mont St Michel – the most visited site in France – right on the border with Brittany. The granite coastline, sandy coves and the inland bocage, a dense array of hedgerows and trees that so obstructed the Allies in 1944, has changed little in centuries.
A journey through Normandy cannot fail to reveal its significant part in western history. The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the Battle of Hastings and, most famously, its coastline hosts the five beaches onto which the Allied troops landed on D-Day. Caen’s Memorial Museum follows the course of the event and the beaches themselves remain a primary reason for many to visit the region. Even its medieval castle played a part in the Second World War; today, it serves as a museum exhibiting Normandy’s art and history.
Normandy is known as the dairy of France and its dishes often feature cream, butter, and fine cheeses such as Camembert and Pont l’Evêque. The cider route takes in the countryside and pretty villages of the Pays d’Auge, where Calvados, the distinctive apple brandy, and cider are produced.
Normandy Blogs
Seafood of Normandy
Rob Fearn | 20 Feb 2023 | Read time: 4m 38s
Normandy is synonymous with many things: 1066 and all that. The D-Day Landing Beaches. Calvados and orchards. But its seafood is a stand out feature of this slow paced, bucolic region.
Read MoreThe Normandy beaches of D-Day
Ben Tully | 5 Jun 2017 | Read time: 5m 3s
The beaches of Normandy saw the largest seaborne invasion in history - 6th June 1944 or D-Day marked the beginning of the Allied campaign to wrestle occupied Europe from Nazi control
Read MoreCommemorating the 80th Anniversary of D-Day - 2024
Rob Fearn | 26 Jun 2023 | Read time: 3m 45s
The 6th of June 2024 will mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, an opportune time to reflect on the historic events that unfolded along the Normandy coast in the days that followed.
Read MoreA REGION OF CONTRASTS
A region of contrasts
Normandy has a rich landscape full of variety. Its superb coastline includes the Cotentin Peninsula, the cliffs of the Côte d’Albâtre and the fine beaches and fashionable resorts of the Côte Fleurie. Notable spots include Houlgate with its pretty promenade and vast sandy beach, and Cabourg, a popular resort with large sandy beach and a whiff of Edwardian elegance about it – stroll around the marina admiring the yachts or meander through the formal gardens.
The beaches may be wide and sandy, but the rolling countryside of the interior conceals a wealth of quiet, unassuming villages, ancient market towns and unspoilt countryside calling out for leisurely exploration. Rouen is the largest city, the scene of Joan of Arc’s martyrdom and renowned as the ‘town of a thousand spires’ that inspired the Impressionist painter Monet.
CAMPING IN NORMANDY
Camping in Normandy
A hardy perennial camping destination, Normandy is a convenient entry point to much of France. Many people drive straight through Normandy, chasing the sun (not always successfully!) and ignoring the glories of this fabulous region in their haste.
Campsites in Normandy are family-friendly, with generally spacious grassy pitches and well demarcated with attractive shrubs and tidy hedging. It is not uncommon for campsites to have been established in orchards where an apple tree still remains on each pitch.
Most campers either enjoy the beaches and the historical sights of the region, or are keen outdoor activity fans, enjoying walking, canoeing, cycling along quiet country lanes or playing golf on some of France’s best courses with the lushest and greenest of greens.
GETTING TO NORMANDY
Getting to Normandy
It’s a short hop across the Channel to Normandy. And there are always special prices on certain sailings so do shop around. Brittany Ferries sails from Portsmouth to Cherbourg or Le Havre and Caen, as well as Poole to Cherbourg. Overnight ferry crossings are more expensive, with cabins a popular extra, but you do arrive refreshed. DFDS sails from Newhaven to Dieppe.
PLACES OF INTEREST
Places of interest
Bayeux: Founded by the Romans, sacked by the Vikings, then home to the celebrated 11th century tapestry, 70 metres long and depicting the Norman conquest of England in 1066, Bayeux has endured a troubled history. The town centre is picturesque with narrow cobbled lanes, ancient timbered buildings and a magnificent cathedral. The cemetery on the outskirts, with some 4,648 white headstones, is particularly moving.
Suisse Normande: One of Normandy’s most beautiful regions: a delightful wooded landscape with rocky ravines, trout streams and the greenest of valleys. This is a great area for canoeing and rock climbing, and there are wonderful hiking trails to the south. All very different to the vast beaches of the coast and the sleepy, lush meadows of the interior to the north.
Mont St Michel: A view unchanged for centuries and as you drive around the bay, the mount pops up on the horizon at intervals in a picture-postcard scene that is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Even General Eisenhower mentioned this view in his memoirs. The ancient Benedictine monastery is connected by a causeway, surrounded by salt marshes with grazing sheep at low tide.
Honfleur: A photographer’s dream, and the subject of countless paintings, this is perhaps one of France’s most quaint and photogenic small ports. A fascinating variety of boats moor up in the ancient dock, just yards from wonderful seafood restaurants which fight for the freshest of fish. The high, narrow houses, painted in faded pastel hues, cast their reflection in the water and are the iconic backdrop to a timeless, picturesque scene.
Caen: Steeped in history, Caen is a bustling university town dominated by the 11th century fortress and Abbaye aux Hommes, an architectural gem built by William the Conqueror. On the outskirts of town the Caen Memorial Museum is a superb reminder of the terrible story of the Battle of Normandy and is a place of solemn pilgrimage for those seeking a better understanding of the events of the D-Day Landings of 1944.
Deauville: With its stylish beach promenade and racy nightlife, not to mention Grand Casino, racecourse and film festival, Deauville has been a magnet for those seeking the high life, sprinkled with a little glamour, since the mid 19th century.
Cherbourg: La Cité de la Mer; Château des Ravalet; Thomas Henry Museum.
Omaha Beach: D-Day beaches; landing site monuments; American cemetery.
Giverny: home of impressionist painter Claude Monet; Monet Museum.
Lisieux: pilgrimage site, shrine of Ste Thérèse.
Rouen: Joan of Arc Museum; Gothic churches, cathedrals, abbey, clock tower.
NORMANDY CUISINE
Normandy cuisine
Known as the dairy of France, Normandy’s markets are abundant with rich cream, butter, and fine cheeses such as Camembert and Pont l’Evêque. Voluptuous sauces are typical of the region as are desserts made with orchard fruits like apples, pears and cherries. Fish, and shellfish such as mussels, scallops and oysters, are sensational.
The Saturday market at Bayeux is one of the finest, with countless stalls vying for attention, all offering delectable treats. The many apple orchards are used in producing cider and the well known Calvados, the region’s apple brandy.
Andouillette de Vire: Small chitterling (tripe) sausage.
Barbue au cidre: Brill cooked in cider and Calvados.
Douillon aux pommes à la Normande: Baked apples in pastry.
Escalope (Vallée d’Auge): Veal sautéed and flamed in Calvados with cream and apples.
Teurgoule: Rice pudding with cinnamon.
Tripes à la mode de Caen: Stewed beef tripe with onions, carrots, leeks, garlic, cider and
Calvados.