The nuclear power station at Flamanville can be visited, and is most interesting. Across the bay can be seen the nuclear processing plant at La Hague, which is considerably more controversial, and can not be visited except by French citizens with special permission.

Port-Racine

famous as the smallest harbour in France, and the summer home of the poet Jacques Prévert.

The North-West tip

This windswept top corner of the Cotentin is of the same granite as Brittany and Cornwall, and equally beautiful.

Goury

Very bleak, very rocky; which is why its two main features are a lighthouse and a lifeboat station.

Regnéville

Hauteville

This tiny granite village was the birthplace of the painter Millet, and sets the scene for his most famous picture 'The Angelus'. Apparently, the local woman who is featured in the painting was known for the rest of her life as 'Madame Angélus'.

Gréville-Hague

Another village in the typical local style, solid stone houses built close together and with no windows on the west side, all as a protection against the terrible prevailing wind.

Barneville-Carteret

A resort town famous for sand dunes and seafood, from which you can take the ferry to Jersey, just 20 miles away.

Portbail

A charming little port with oyster and mussel beds, sand-yachting, windsurfing and, when the tide is wrong for Carteret, ferries to Jersey.

Regnéville

Notable for a ruined castle which looks as if it will fall down at any moment, for the vast royal limekilns nearby, and for the quality of meat from the sheep which graze the salt marshes.