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Places that we like well

 GEFOSSE

Ferme fortifiée de L'HERMEREL : 33(0) 2 31 22 64 12

On the site of the Castle of Géfosse, the Hermerel dominate, surrounded by its meadows. The light, varying to the taste of the Berry of Veys' tides, confers to the farm house a particular harmony always renewed. One can discovers there a small Gothic chapel of the XV century and a majestic dovecot, witness of the magnitude passed from this ancient domain.

Agnès and François LEMARIE will receive you in their bedrooms fitted in the manor of the XVII century.

 

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Artisan potter

Atelier du Douet Docquet  2 rue du Calvaire : 33(0)2 31 22 56 73

An artisan directly coming from " Science Eco", and who fell in love for pottery. Using a great metallic oxide variety, Hervé Coffignal, since 1975 has been creating with a large range of blues that makes the origenality of its stoneware.

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LA CAMBE    

 

Féronnerie d' Art LA FORGE

Jean Louis COUSSOT est passé, de la fabrication du fromage de chèvres à la férronnerie d'art, une reconvertion

qui mérite le détour. A visiter sur : http;//perso.club-internet.fr/jcoussot

La forge - La ferme du marais - 14 230 La Cambe - Tel ( 33 ) 02 31 22 70 39

 

ENGLESQUEVILLE

 

Cider and Calvados

Château d'Englesqueville  : 33 (0)2 31 22 70 72

The Lebrec family has been established in this castle since three générations... Bernard Lebrec perpetuates the family tradition by making with a lot of know now bottled cider and Calvados in the purest local tradition. Even if you don't go of there to taste the cider, make a tour to Englesqueville and you will see this very nice castle from the 16/17 th. century with Saracens towers.

BERNESQ

 

 La grange au Mohair    : 33 (0)2 31 22 47 52

 

After holidays passed in Pyrenees and the visit of Angora goats breeding , the CLAY family, decided to implant in the Bessin its own breeding. Five years later, 200 Angora goats,provides 500 Mohair wool kilos, spun by an artisan near Toulouse in the south of France, and send back to Bernesq for transformation by the CLAY family.

An instructive and interesting visit. Visits all days from 10 to 18 except Sunday.

ISIGNY

 

Normandie Caramels  : 33 (0)2 31 21 52 89   FAX : 33(0)2 31 21 92 56

 

Daniel PALIX probably fall in a bowl of caramel when he was young , since thirty years he has been making with talent and love, these famous caramels of ISIGNY whose ingredients have not changed since génerations....Milk whole to 26% of fat matter,GUERANDE flowers of salt, glucose, aromas, sugar, dosed according to a tradition transmited from father to son.

Here 500 kilos of caramels are produced per day, with thirty different aromas wich makes you traveling in all our French pritional caramels with vanilla, chocolate, cafe, hazelnut, apple and of course Calvados.

A gourmet promenade, and an exciting visit for lovers of top of the range candies, and for those who will fall in love after having tasted them.

Visits only the morning at 10 o'clock......

  CARANTAN

 

 

 Baptism of the air

Les Vents d'Ouest   : 33(0)2 33 42 49 08    Fax: 33(0)2 33 42 49 06

 

AN ORIGINAL IDEA THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO OVERFLY...

..Le Mont St. Michel, the Cotentin marshes or Omaha Beaches. The flight last an hour, but with the preparation of the hot air balloon, it is necessary to count three hours. It is indispensable to telephone before, because flights are made on request and meteorological conditions are determinantes.....Good flight and prepared your cameras !

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FORMIGNY

 

A few history

 The battle of Formigny

In 1450 this site has seen the end of the " hundred years war ", you will see at the crossroads a commemorative monument erected in 1903 by A. LEDUC. Far on the right the chapel of St. LOUIS from the XV th. centurie.

 

 

MOLAY-LITTRY

 

MINE MUSEUM

 

Situated on the ancient Littry mining site, unique coal in Normandy, the Mine Museum, opened in 1902, is one of the oldest mining museums in France. Around the famous fire pump of the PERIER brothers, unique in France, the collections conjure up the everyday surroundings of the miners and the development of mining techniques from the 18th centyry to the middle of the 20th century, with, in particular, the 1/10 model of apit head, presented at the 1900 Paris World Exhibition.

 

OPEN : 10 h. à 12 h / 14 h. à 18 h.

33(0)2 31 22 89 10

 

Marcy Mill

 

Mill farm comprising a set of rural buildings from the 18 and 19 centuries, Marcy Mill is set in enchanting natural surroundings. Marcy is a rare example of those grinding mills, once numerous along our rivers, but which have now disapeared. Its machinery, still in working order, made of wood and cast iron, is driven by a bucket-wheel propelled by a waterfall.

OPEN: 10 h. à 12 h. / 14 h. à 18 h.

33(0)2 31 21 42 13