Gardens of Etretat & Benediction Palace

Sarah gave us a beautiful breakfast this morning before we left the B&B. We want to visit the gardens before we leave this morning. We did a bit of a sneaky park up the top of the cliffs near the gardens. Hope the car doesn’t get towed away while we’re there.

It’s a small but very well manicured garden. So many topiaried bushes. And the sculptures spread throughout the gardens added a nice touch. Lovely views of the cliffs from up there as well.

Then we were off to Fecamp to visit the Benediction Palace. Luckily we got there before they close at lunchtime for two hours. They have an app you can download to guide you through in English. Such an opulent amazing building. Beautiful stained glass windows depicting different scenes of Benedict monks. We had a guided visit of the distillery at the end, in French unfortunately but we had our little app to listen to. And then we had a tasting at then end, I couldn’t believe some people didn’t even have theirs. Graham and I had double lots. Seemed a shame for it to go to waste.Read more