Appartement "Les pieds dans l'eau, la tête dans les nuages ...."

We walked in the door and it felt like we'd walked into the web page. Often, in our experience, places are not what is advertised. Not so this time. Everything was exactly as we had expected and hoped. Since we were there in off season, it was extremely quiet. The manager who met us with the keys said it was "très calme", and indeed it was. Just what we were looking for -- long walks on the beach with just a few other people in sight. Everything in the apartment worked fine. The ocean view from our seventh floor balcony was breathtaking. Many shops were closed in the town, but plenty of restaurants were open and between my very limited French and the English of the waiters we survived just fine (our favorite was L'Ocean). Note: aside from restaurants there seemed to be very little English. The only difficulty was the absence of WIFI, but the information on the website had said there was none. So we expected that. However the two places that were supposed to offer free WIFI (the emergency station on the dike & one restaurant) were both closed and there was no WIFI. Thankfully, the Tourist Office on the main street had free WIFI so we parked once a day on the street and did the necessary connecting. The one patisserie that was open offered wonderful pastries. If we find ourselves in this part of France in the future we will gladly stay there again.