What to see in Saint-Vaast-La-Hougue in Normandy

Saint-Vaast-La-Hougue is famous for its oyster farming, seafood restaurants, and as a departure point for the islet of Tatihou.

These are some impressions from our time around the city.

Maison Gosselin is a good shop for quality products. It looks like a green grocer’s from the outside, but it has a large selection of very different and interesting products from the area.

Narrow streets leading to the harbor road.

My husband, the perpetual seafood hunter, had me watch him eat this plate at ‘La CriĂ©e du Tomahawk’ for 1:40hr.

Here are the fruits of my labor (my patience).

There is oyster farming all around.

Oyster beds in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue

Evening stroll around the port area.

Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue

Both vacation rentals had no wifi, so we had to hunt for hot spots. The Tourism Office in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue had the best one – very good reception and… a wall to sit on. 🙂

The Town of Chettehou in Normandy

We left our vacation rental in Barfleur on a Saturday morning, which also happened to be market day. This merry-go-round was the first thing we saw when we left the house.

Market day in Barfleur

We spent most of the day in and around Chettehou until we could check into our next accommodation at 4pm.

The guy on the ladder is street art.

Street art in Chettehou

The sign ‘1041km -> Erlabrunn’ signals the distance to its German sister city of Erlabrunn, which happens to be in my hometown area of Franconia (northern Bavaria).

Chettehou – Erlabrunn

The best way to spend a lazy afternoon is at the beach collecting sea glass.

This was our rental home, a former cider farm house. This living room used to be the place where horses (real horse power) turned the stone wheel to mash the apples.

Cider farm house in Chettehou

As usual, I enjoy the mornings sitting outside the most. Our little back yard had a creek, a waterfall (old water mill) in the back, and the biggest hazelnut tree I had ever seen.

This vacation rental was a bit off the beaten path, and you needed a car to get around (the other one in Barfleur was in the center of town). It was worth it.

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