Le Tréport, France
Dec 13, 2009 21:51:48 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2009 21:51:48 GMT
Le Tréport is a small fishing port in northern Normandy, quite popular with daytrippers looking for seafood.
It has the chalk cliffs typical of the region as well as a pebble beach, but it is also a major fishing port.
Here is the door to the lighthouse. I really like that in the old days, they could not imagine making something without decorating it. Our modern doors are so plain and exclusively functional in comparison.
The beach consisted of the same surf and pebbles as I had seen earlier in the afternoon in Etretat.
This is a larger town, albeit with a population of fewer than 7000 people, so the beach attracts more people in the summer. Yes, they wear plastic sandals to walk on the painful pebbles and use foam mats to stretch out on the beach. Here is a professional photo of the beach.
There were quite a few people fishing off the piers and breakwater. I do not have the slightest idea of what sort of fish you can catch there.
A few fishing boats were setting out to sea late in the afternoon. I need to find out more about how long they stay out and why they would leave at the end of the day.
The afternoon tide was coming in, and even getting out of the port did not seem to be very easy. There were big swells, and the tides are quite extreme in this part of the world -- several meters in height.
I have always had weird fantasies about working on a fishing boat. I really don't know why. It is almost certainly a really shitty, dangerous job with a lot of asocial people who don't get along with the people on shore.
Oh, I think I just figured it out.
Anyway, many visitors do not really care if the port is scenic or not. Half of them come to buy ultra fresh seafood right off the boats.
The other half of the visitors come to eat ultra fresh seafood right off the boats.
The port has changed over the years, as have most of the fishing ports in the region. In the old days, the ports would empty out at low tide like a bathtub, leaving the boats lying on their sides. This was not very good for the boats.
Now the ports have been moved back as far as possible and been fitted with locks to keep the water in and the boats floating at all times.
The lock at Le Tréport is way back at the end of this channel.
I was able to see a fishing boat returning to port with its splendid bounty of Saint Jacques. (scallops)
Naturally, some of the fishermen will continue to die at sea, so of course there is a seamen's cross to honor them.
These seaside towns are another world to me, even though I grew up on the coast next to a fishing port. Go figure.
It has the chalk cliffs typical of the region as well as a pebble beach, but it is also a major fishing port.
Here is the door to the lighthouse. I really like that in the old days, they could not imagine making something without decorating it. Our modern doors are so plain and exclusively functional in comparison.
The beach consisted of the same surf and pebbles as I had seen earlier in the afternoon in Etretat.
This is a larger town, albeit with a population of fewer than 7000 people, so the beach attracts more people in the summer. Yes, they wear plastic sandals to walk on the painful pebbles and use foam mats to stretch out on the beach. Here is a professional photo of the beach.
There were quite a few people fishing off the piers and breakwater. I do not have the slightest idea of what sort of fish you can catch there.
A few fishing boats were setting out to sea late in the afternoon. I need to find out more about how long they stay out and why they would leave at the end of the day.
The afternoon tide was coming in, and even getting out of the port did not seem to be very easy. There were big swells, and the tides are quite extreme in this part of the world -- several meters in height.
I have always had weird fantasies about working on a fishing boat. I really don't know why. It is almost certainly a really shitty, dangerous job with a lot of asocial people who don't get along with the people on shore.
Oh, I think I just figured it out.
Anyway, many visitors do not really care if the port is scenic or not. Half of them come to buy ultra fresh seafood right off the boats.
The other half of the visitors come to eat ultra fresh seafood right off the boats.
The port has changed over the years, as have most of the fishing ports in the region. In the old days, the ports would empty out at low tide like a bathtub, leaving the boats lying on their sides. This was not very good for the boats.
Now the ports have been moved back as far as possible and been fitted with locks to keep the water in and the boats floating at all times.
The lock at Le Tréport is way back at the end of this channel.
I was able to see a fishing boat returning to port with its splendid bounty of Saint Jacques. (scallops)
Naturally, some of the fishermen will continue to die at sea, so of course there is a seamen's cross to honor them.
These seaside towns are another world to me, even though I grew up on the coast next to a fishing port. Go figure.
