The reason for our stay in Fécamp was so we could visit the white cliffs at Étretat, so Dot made a picnic and we all set of in Mick's car. The GPS as usual, took us the long way but we arrived without a problem and even though it was very busy, we got parked by the sea front in the centre of town. The cliffs are spectacular but the tide was in so we couldn't walk round the famous arch.
Had a walk along the beach as far as we could and even went part way up the cliff to take photos and then walked back to the sea front in town for our picnic. While we were eating we noticed two inflatable's with dogs pulling them, apparently there are some sort of sea rescue team (they have been on TV in the UK since we got back).
After lunch, as we had seen the cliffs and none of us were bothered about looking round the town, we went back to the car and moved on to small town of Yport, on the way back to Fécamp.
Yport was a lovely little town, like a smaller Étretat, only it look like any rock formation they may have had have collapsed. We did have a walk along the pebbly beach, it is a nice place for a walk but there wasn't much there, so we moved on to Fécamp.
Back home in Fécamp, we parked up at the campsite and walked down the cliff, the path was not too steep and it brings you out at south end of the promenade. The prom was very colourful and busy so we had a nice slow walk along in the sun towards the pier. At the far end of the promenade, at the mouth of the river Valmont and close to the pier was the Aire, it was good for visiting the town but looked very unorganized.
Nice walk in a nice town but it did get a bit cold in the wind on the sea front, and the opportunity for good photos dropped when the sun went in and a bit of fret rolled in from the sea. So we moved inland, along the river away from the front and eventually we retired to a bar, to warm up, with beer (SAS Pils) and red wine.
By the time we had a couple of drinks, the sun was shining again so we got some fresh bread for tonight's BBQ and made our way back up the cliff. The clime up to the campsite, wasn't too bad but we did take our time though, we had, had a busy day.
That night we barbequed the other half of the meat and had several more beers watching another beautiful sunset over the sea.
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