Passer le Camembert. The French region of Basse-Normandie is where the yumsome soft cheese was first produced in the eighteenth century and it now churns out 15,000 tonnes of the fromage each year, most of which we feel we could manage to consume. Passer aussi le Calvados, the cider brandy brewed in Basse-Normandie for centuries – we’re pretty sure we could consume most of its production in a year too.
Roll placidly back to a Basse-Normandie campsite with your haul and plot what to do next: many visitors to the region come to see Omaha and the other beaches of the D-Day landings, the Bayeux tapestry at Calvados and the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Mont Saint Michel, one of the most visited tourist attractions in France. Mont Saint Michel est in the department of Manche, a popular Basse-Normandie camping destination with over three hundred kilometres of coastline and the biggest number of Blue Flag beaches in Normandy, the harbour city of Cherbourg and the Cotentin/Cherbourg Peninsula, with the Côte des Îles and the D-Day beach of Utah. Passer le campsite list.
