We've just come home from a week in the south of france. If you like good wine, oysters and stunning nature ( who doesn't ? ) this is the place for you. The whole area is beautiful: vines, cypresses and the blue see as far as far as the eye can see. We have a favorite spot though,  Gruissan plage and La Clape.

Gruissan Plage

Behind the wide and kilometers long with beach lies a very spechial Holiday "village" : Les Chalets de Gruissan,  hundreds of small wood houses built on pillars. The chalets were built 1850 in the time when people started to go to the seaside for a holiday. I have never been there in high season but what I like is it's off season charm. When most of the houses are still empty the place has a very special charm. It's a windy place and in the evening you have what people call  "le marin is coming home" which means the recurring evening mist which is coming from the sea. To watch the wafts of mist creep over the white sand is a beautiful look.

Gruissan Plage definitely makes it to my top 3 european beaches.

Les Chalets de Gruisson Plage

If you get hungry theres only one place to go: at the very end of the Chalets area and the beach is

"La Perle Gruissanaise" a oyster and mussel farm with a very nice little "restaurant" more like a oyster eating place. The place has lot's of charm, from a big basin you choose the oysters you like, order a drink and go to sit on one of the little tables next door.

La Perle Gruissanaise
Base Conchylicole, 11430 Gruissan