Normandy Holidays France

Are you planning to spend your vacation in France? Then you should discover Normandy. A Normandy holiday is not only charming but also revitalizing. Normandy, is ideal to bring the kids to enjoy a multitude of outdoor activities.For the more exploratory, holidays in Normandy will bring you close to nature through hiking and cycling activities or manoeuvring canoes down rapid rivers and wind surfing on the sea.

The splendid history of Normandy draws numerous tourists to this marvelous region every year. Operation Overlord was one of the most critical events of World War 2. The assault on France began with the D-Day landings on the Normandy Coast on 6th June in 1944 where vast numbers of Allied soldiers descended.. The Battle of Normandy witnessed violent combat for the concluding liberation of France. This fundamental turning point in the war was a essential episode in the history of Normandy.

In the schedule of your holiday in France, ensure to visit Rouen, the capital of Normandy where you can stand in wonder before the famous Notre Dame Cathedral. It was here that Joan of Arc faced off with her interrogators, bravely standing trial and burning at the stake. Take a trip to see the one thousand year old Gothic Abbey of Mont-St-Michel, perched on a rocky islet standing 264 feet high. This shrine to Saint Michael was an influential place of medieval pilgrimage and is reached by climbing winding, steeply inclined streets. First built in 708 by Saint Aubert, Bishop of Avranches, Mont-St-Michel is the focal point of tourists from all over the world.

When you're in Normandy during your holiday in France, pay a visit to the famous spa town, Bagnoles de l'Orne. Here you can take it easy and be pampered to reduce your fatigue and muscle stress or go for a swim and play golf. The villas in the town sport exceptional roofing, bow windows and polychrome facades.

Enjoy the town of Bayeux where you can behold the marvelous embroidered tapestry unfolding the Battle of Hastings and the Norman conquest of England. It dates to the time of William the Conqueror.

At the town of Lassay-les-Chateaux you can enjoy a 15th century stone castle that is even now fully standing. A little further north of this town is Domfort, which boasts narrow streets and the ruins of medieval castles.

When you take your kids for a Normandy holiday, you can thrill them with sumptuous swims in the sea off the northern coast of France. You can picnic on the beach along a 600km shores and watch your kids frolic joyfully in the fresh waters of the English Channel.

If you're an keen outdoors person, you'll be drawn to cycling along coastal roads. Immerse yourself in the peacefulness of the green scenery as you bike along picturesque roads at Fecamp-Etretat. You can leisurely explore the unspoilt scenery on your vacation in France and be at one with the physical beauty of this region with its mesmerizing vistas, forested woodlands and rich pastures.

Inject your French vacation with a spot of horse riding at one of the various riding centres and stud farms in Normandy, France's most important horse breeding region. Among the important horse breeding estates are Haras de Saint Lo and Haras du Pin. You can ride select riding routes from 2,000km of riding ways in Orne alone.

During your Normandy trip, you can delight in the exciting activity of water sports offered by plentiful resorts on the Cote de Nacre or the Cote Fleurie. There is an first-rate marina in Trouville, a fashionable and elegant beach resort. You can hire a boat and sail for hours, passing the granite coastline of the north to the white cliffs and sandy beaches of the south. Go wind surfing or canoeing on the emerald green sea off the Calvados coast.

Approaching 8 kms away is the lovely village of Lonlay L'Abbaye, your destination for a quiet close to your holiday in France. This archetypal French village is the embodiment of French vacations as you will be able to relate with the pleasant local populace and enjoy the extraordinary Normandy cuisine.

With the large quantity of apples in this lovely region, you'll find the local dishes have special gastronomy that makes ingenious use of this scrumptious fruit. When dining out during your vacation in Normandy, you could savour the taste of moules à la normande - a dish of mussels that have been expertly cooked in cream and apples. If you're a fan of pastries, try bourdelots or baked apples in pastry. You must also bite into the local variation of apple tart, the flan Normandy. Your holidays in Normandy won't be fulfilled if you don't have a whiff of their apply brandy, called calvados. This alcoholic beverage is a popular drink which is consumed by the locals in the intervening period between courses of a meal. A combination of apple brandy and unfermented cider produces pommeau, an aperitif you must enjoy during your Normandy trip.

You can travel to your Normandy trip on connecting flights from Paris or you could take the train. If you go by road, there are ferry ports at Dieppe, Le Havre and Cherbourg. You can also drive direct from Calais to Caen and Rouen. One of the best ways to truly experience the charming French lifestyle is to stay in one of the gites in Normandy. At the rural village of Lonlay L'Abbaye you can find exceptional accommodation in an 18th century manor house at Le Manoir Nezement.