Restaurants in the Somme Bay put a real emphasis on local sourcing
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purslane on the Bay’s salt marshes. Olivier will also let you in on secrets about the creatures that live under the sand and those that cross it by night (including wild boar), as well as the birds, salt marsh sheep and seal colonies for which the bay is renowned.
Living local
Local seafood should be high on anyone’s agenda – and there’s nowhere better to taste it than the Auberge de la Marine in charming Le Crotoy, where Jules Verne wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Here, chef Pascal Lefebre, son of a butcher, works on a zero-carbon philosophy that has included dispensing with paper menus in favour of two-metre-tall chalkboards. Or nearby, the characterful Hôtel des Tourelles also offers inventive fish dishes on the shore’s edge.
Even the shopping is green in the Baie de Somme! Browse the rederies (fleamarkets) or antiques shops of St-Valery-en-Somme to find a memory of France to bring home and give a second life…