Saint-Valery-en-Caux in Normandy

30 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  4 minutes

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Saint-Valery-en-Caux is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. The addition of an acute accent on the “e” (Valéry) is incorrect.   read more…

Eu in Normandy

8 September 2023 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

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Office du Tourisme © Pierre Andre/cc-by-sa-4.0

Eu is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Eu is located near the coast in the eastern part of the department, near the border with Picardy. Its inhabitants are known in French as the Eudois. The name of the commune is related to that of the river on which it stands. Before being called the Bresle, this small river was known in the Middle Ages under the name of Ou, which then became Eu. Eu is chiefly known for its nearby national forest, the Eu Forest, the Renaissance style Château d’Eu and its college.   read more…

Le Tréport in Normandy

18 June 2023 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

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Le Tréport is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in Normandy, France. The three towns of Le Tréport, Eu and Mers-les-Bains are known locally as the Three sisters.   read more…

Fécamp in Normandy

16 June 2023 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

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Fécamp is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France. Fécamp is situated in the valley of the river Valmont, at the heart of the Pays de Caux, on the Alabaster Coast. It is around 35 km northeast of Le Havre, and around 60 km northwest of Rouen.   read more…

Veules-les-Roses in Normandy

20 September 2022 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  4 minutes

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The river Veules © Gegeours/cc-by-sa-3.0

Veules-les-Roses is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Veules-les-Roses is a tourism and farming village situated on the coast of the English Channel in the Pays de Caux, some 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Dieppe at the junction of the D68, D926 and the D142 roads.   read more…

Sainte-Adresse in Normandy

2 January 2022 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

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Beach huts © panoramio.com – corinne potet/cc-by-3.0

Sainte-Adresse is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the region of Normandy, France. A coastal suburb situated some 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Le Havre city centre, at the junction of the D147 and the D940. The English Channel forms the western border of the commune.   read more…

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