Introduction to this race The Tour de France à la voile is a sailing race organized every year during the month of July. The race connects the English Channel and the Côte d'Azur in about ten stages in French seaside resorts. The Tour takes place over a period of approximately 4 weeks, along the ...
cture of the Belle Époque. Failing to stay there, book a table in the large room of the Le Balbec restaurant to enjoy a magnificent panorama over the English Channel. You will thus be following in the footsteps of Marcel Proust who used to stay at the Grand Hôtel between 1907 and 1914. On ...
Art in the landscape In Varengeville-sur-Mer, there is the English Channel, the white cliffs of the Côte d'Albâtre and a picturesque Norman village nestled in the greenery. But there are also land art installations to discover as part of the festival Grandeur Nature. As the very essence of ...
he level of quality of local spots, thanks to a sign placed at the entrance of the municipality. The city of Cannes awarded the label Between the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the French coastline is not short of surf spots. Surfing enthusiasts know of course the ...
the Mediterranean coast, even at night. More globally, throughout the Mediterranean, the general trend is towards warming since the early 1980s. The English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean are also affected, to a lesser extent, by this phenomenon. Scientists have noted an increase of 1 to 2°C in ...
nd 32 km from Brest. Kilometers of fine sand dotted with granite rocks have made the reputation of this small Breton town. Only the temperature of the English Channel, which rarely exceeds 20°C, reminds bathers that they are not in a tropical lagoon but indeed in the northwest of France. A postcar ...
fish stings because these venomous fish are present along the entire French coastline, from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, including the Atlantic coasts and the English Channel. The most common species on the beaches is the lesser weever, and it comes to lay its eggs in the sand in spring and ...
