a beach club on the ramparts of the intramuros(walled city) of Saint-Malo where you can rent kayaks…read more& hobie-cats. and best of all, swim in the seawater pool(at high tide, the pool is entirely submerged by the sea except for the diving platform). definitely a safe and popular alternative to the open sea. there's also a bar for drinks, burgers & frites(shoes/shirts not required).

This French beach is where the allied troops arrived in 1944 to liberate Europe. It has been…read morerebuilt and is now a lively tourist area, but there are many reminders of the price that was paid by all the Allied Force Troops to create this much enjoyed freedom!

It was striking to set foot on Omaha Beach, and Omaha Beach was where the most horrendous American…read morelosses were suffered during the D-Day landings. The beach was quite flat and wide when we saw it at mid-tide, but at low tide when the troops landed, the width of the beach would have been an astounding 450 yards. It's no wonder the casualty rate of the first two landing waves was 90% as the GI's were sitting ducks under the heavy German machine gun fire. But a low tide landing was the plan so that the barricades and mines could be visible, so it was a tradeoff of two evils. Physically visiting this site gives you these insights and that was enlightening, but setting foot here on this once bloody beach where the course of world history hung in the balance was quite special and humbling.

Utah Beach is amazing , we're WE2 ended and liberated France . This is definitely a stop that…read moreeveryone should see if they are visiting in France. There is also an amazing museum to visit as well. This is definitely a part of history that is truly amazing

I always wanted to visit the site of the greatest military invasion in the history of the world,…read moreand Utah Beach was the westernmost of the 5 landing sites of that D-Day invasion. There is a Utah Beach Landing Museum present (which I did not visit), and various monuments. There is a prominent monument dedicated to Andrew Jackson Higgins for developing the essential Higgins Boat landing craft. Also nearby, but not right at Utah Beach, is a prominent leadership monument featuring Richard D Winters, the heroic commander of the "Band of Brothers", i.e. Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division. He paratrooped in at 1:30am on D-Day and landed nearby. I walked Utah Beach and it's flatter with no bluffs here compared to what we saw later at Omaha Beach about 10 miles to the east. I was surprised to learn the difference in the width of the beach between low and high tide is an astounding 450 yards! We saw this beach near high tide, and you'll see from the photos there's not that much beach, but there was on D-Day when they landed near low tide per the plan so that the barricades and mines and such would be visible. So much world-altering history here on the Normandy Beaches, it's all a must-see!

From the owner: De la plage de l'Ecluse à Saint-Enogat La station s'enorgueillit de quatre plages. La plus grande,…read morela plage de Longchamp, bordée par la digue, est la plus venteuse et donc propice toute l'année à la planche à voile. La Grand Plage est la mieux protégée et donc plus familiale. La Fosse Aux Vaults ou Fourberie et la plage de Port Blanc proche de Saint-Enogat sont plus discrètes et moins fréquentées.