Camping Le Clos des Genêts

A bike ride is recommended first up, either with gentle aimlessness to see where in these pretty parts you might end up, or along to the Parc du Marquenterre, the famed 200-hectare birdwatching and nature region in the Baie de Somme National Nature Reserve. Thousands of migrating birds have a pitstop here in winter; at any time of year, ride along to see teals, spoonbills, storks and avocets flitting around and above the water. Around the Bay of Somme, there are yet more birds as well as seals to see, boats to sail between the bay's villages, and guided tours where you can cross the bay at low tide. Have a ride too on one of the Somme's steam locomotives to the seaside resorts of Le Crotoy, Noyelles-sur-Mer, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme and Cayeux-sur-Mer, along 24 kilometres of peaceful tracks. If you're in this part of northern France for a World War I remembrance trip, the Remembrance Trail runs through the nearby Somme Battlefields area, between Albert and Péronne and past the Chapel of Rememberance and the Delville Wood South African National Memorial. Within 10 minutes' drive are the sandy beaches of Quend-Plage and Fort-Mahon, for sand and water sports like sand yachting and catamaran sailing, or sunbathing on Quend-Plage's 15-kilometre stretch.