Honfleur

Subject Range: MFL, Art, Cultural, Geography, Food Technology

What you’ll experience:
A town with a rich artistic and historical heritage, Honfleur has beautiful old houses, narrow paved streets, monuments, little shops, traditional restaurants, galleries, artists’ studios, a fishing harbour and a marina.

Select says:
The changing light on the Seine estuary inspired Monet, Boudin, Courbet, and many others. Great place to stop for lunch on route to your destination or on the way home to break up the journey.

Allow: 1-2 hours

Mont Saint Saint-Michel

Subject Range: MFL, Cultural, History, Geography, Religious Studies

What you’ll experience:
This world famous island and monastery is surrounded by tidal sands, and has been a place of refuge and pilgrimage for centuries. You will have time for a tour of the Abbey and for shopping in the narrow and evocative lanes of the island.

Select says:
This is a beautiful location and worth taking your time and making the most of the monastery and village at its feet.

Allow: 3 hours

Étretat

Subject Range: Cultural, Geography

What you’ll experience:
A coastal study developing skills in recording and presenting information. Topics include beach profiles – shingle beach; beach sediment size investigation and features of coastal erosion: chalk cliffs, caves, arches and stacks.

Select says:
An opportunity to get to grips with a range of coastal features in a small area.

Arromanches

Subject Range: Cultural, History, Geography

What you’ll experience:
Arromanches: environmental quality investigation, tourism survey and evaluation of coastal management strategies. Arromanches is a significant tourist location on the Normandy beaches with an important role to play in telling us the history of the successful landings. But what can we learn today about how the impact of tourism is managed to sustain the environment of this coastal environment.

Select says:
A great location to investigate coastal features and learn about our (as tourists) impact upon the area.

Bayeux

Subject Range: Cultural, Geography

What you’ll experience:
Land use transects and the location and clustering of services in the CBD. Work focussed on the urban landscape, showing through a city transept, the disposition of services and business as well as residential areas in the city.

Select says:
One of the most beautiful and compact towns in which to study the urban landscape.