Etretat

It finally stopped raining Tuesday morning, and we walked the kilometer into pretty Etretat, to the pebble beach and the first views of the great sea cliffs there. We have seen some pretty good sea cliffs in our travels...Amalfi, New Zealand, Ireland, Orkneys, California, Portugal...and Etretat has to rank with these. Thanks, Rachel! From the town easy trails connect the various cliffs. We walked the western two.

It's a pretty town, much half-timbered, interesting
brick and flint...

Lands lides...

A sailboat approaches the great arch east of town

Our kind of town: stroll the beach along restaurant row, gaze
at the beautiful scenery, and get art history lessons as you
go...

The pebble-plage, great white cliffs, an arch, and the church
above

A class or two of pre-schoolers en field-trip to the plage;
and their intrepid teachers; we're always looking at toddlers
and pre-schoolers...

The great arch just west of town; a fishing
boat seen through it...

I thought I could get a quick curry-wurst and a bier at this
establishment, but it appeared closed for the season

Atop a western cliff, looking back toward Etretat

Structures at the base of the cliff

Looking at the next cliffs westward and the great arch there

Sea-stack

And further west, a seagull joins us

As far as we got...more cliffs

So we got down off the cliffs, found just the right restaurant
on the plage, ordered... and then they told us they had run
out of moules; I wouldn't have thought such a thing was
possible...