FRENCH SUMMER VACATION – Mers Les Bains

January 16, 2023

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Lovely colourful homes of the Belle Époque line the streets of this seaside city just a few hours away from Paris. Mers Les Bains has pleasant little streets stuffed with vintage outlets with the right classic desk decors and furnishings, bakeries with essentially the most decadent french pastries corresponding to chocolate eclairs, Tarte meringue, and the standard breakfast staples of Ache au Chocolat to eating places serving conventional french meals however largely regional seafood corresponding to Moules Frites and Choucroute de la Mer(plenty of fascinating poisson de mer).

That is my fifteenth summer season in France, and I’m nonetheless excited to be discovering this excellent nation! Why didn’t somebody inform me that the seashores within the north might be simply as beautiful as those within the south of France?

Sure I really like sharing Paris with you – and you’ll be able to rely on the weblog and Instagram for suggestions of the perfect rooftops, order at a French Bakery, new cool lodges, and so on…

However I additionally love exhibiting you ways easy-to-get-aroundable France is, particularly in case you are visiting Paris. It began with the TRAVEL FROM PARIS Weblog put up.

It’s simple to maneuver round when you contact down in CDG airport or simple in the event you drive in from different elements of Europe. I used to be actually counting the automobiles and caravans with license plates hailing from the UK, Belgium, Germany, and even the Netherlands. France is a high summer season vacation spot for a lot of different Europeans and for good cause; it’s simple to street journey or transfer round from one stunning village to a different.

We stayed in Mers Les Bains this week for our summer season trip.

So to be completely sincere once we booked we had no concept of this area. We booked late by French requirements, in July, whereas most french would have their holidays booked months earlier than. We knew we had been going to do just a few days in Amiens, Lille, after which “someplace” in Normandy alongside the seaside for just a few days.

So we had been fairly final minute, therefore not anticipating to so simply discover this little aspect of Paradise. However oh Mon Dieu!

Quelle belle shock 🙂

Mers Les Bains is likely one of the 3 most important little seaside cities together with Eu and Treport. Our Airbnb was at Oust Marest a tiny village fairly and fairly simple to go by it was 5min drive from all the things although.

Oust Marest has about 20 folks residing there – I child you not! It was excellent; cute, clear, calm, with plenty of little rivers and flowers all over the place.

Our condo was on 2 flooring, the bedrooms upstairs, kitchen, residing house, large television, robust wifi, and we had entry to a backyard with an out of doors eating set and barbecue grill! It was an ideal summer season home.

Oh child – I did my first ever barbecue of Jamaican-style Jerk Rooster!

Some evenings we ate actually summery salads and grazed on Italian and French meals I introduced from Paris and a few discovered on the grocery store. Italian Anchohies and recent multicolored tomatoes had been delish.

Most different days we ate out at one of many eating places at Mers Les Bains or Treport (see the map for the total record).

In Mers les Bains we esp appreciated LesMouettes80 – Esp. du Général Leclerc, 80350 Mers-les-Bains

In Treport we esp appreciated Comptoirs de l’Océan – 46 Quai François 1er, 76470 Le Tréport

Some days we might go grocery store purchasing on the Auchan or Intermarche in Eu