By: Gary Lee Kraut

Gary Lee Kraut — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:00:18 +0000

Marie.
Thanks for the memories!
How about expanding them into a “Cabourg Memories” piece for France Revisited’s The Arts/Writing section?
Gary

By: Marie Z Johnston

Marie Z Johnston — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:06:55 +0000

Nice piece Gary. As a young girl we would go to Cabourg every summer for a month. My grandfather, Pépe, had an apartment which was part of the Grand Hotel complex, just to the right as you face the Casino. So, the circular gardens and the Promenade are very familiar to me.
One of the most wonderful parts of summer were pushing our little filets (nets) along the sea bottom…(at low tide we were in knee high water at most) to collect the little grey crevettes you see so often in Paris as part of a sea food platter. We would collect enough for ‘aperos’, go home and cook them and then eat them up. This we did nearly every day. We also drank a lot of “Cidre Boucher” …
The wide beaches were a great place to make friends.. so there would be about a dozen of us kids playing together until it was time to go home.. for lunch, then for dinner. Sometimes we would explore up the beach, away from our parents, in the abandoned bunkers which were still too recent to be tourist attractions – this was in the early 60’s – back when Johnny Haliday was a handsome, brand new star and his ‘Retien la Nuit’ was at the top of the charts.
I still have fond memories of the hard candy poured into sea shells (a stick-less lolly pop) as well as the shops filled with seashell boxes, frames and dolls. They fascinated me .

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