Cherbourg excursion ideas

[V&P]

I would really appreciate some ideas of places to visit/excursions for a couple (us) who aren’t particularly fascinated  with WWII history.

TIA

[TheOldBear]

Your ship likely has an excursion to Bayeux - and a thing to see there is the Bayeux Tapestry 

History, but not D Day history.

[sansterre]

Thanks Old Bear.  

We remain open to any other suggestions too.  We will be in Cherbourg April 2025.

 

[John Bull]

Most ships that are in Cherbourg for a full day offer excursions to Mont St Michel, on the Normandy / Brittany border.

Google it - a very worthwhile place to visit for those who are fit (steep up-hill), but from Cherbourg it's a long & mainly boring 2-hour drive each-way,

 

JB 🙂 

[exlondoner]

I would just take the shuttle into the town centre. The old town is very pleasant to wander around with narrow streets, cafés, and interesting food shops. The is some sort of sea museum adjacent to the terminal, which is in the former railway station. And allow plenty of time to admire the Terminal, with its baggage hall with the most wonderful polished wooden floor. Worth going there just to see this.

[John Bull]

1 hour ago, exlondoner said:

I would just take the shuttle into the town centre. The old town is very pleasant to wander around with narrow streets, cafés, and interesting food shops. The is some sort of sea museum adjacent to the terminal, which is in the former railway station. And allow plenty of time to admire the Terminal, with its baggage hall with the most wonderful polished wooden floor. Worth going there just to see this.

 

Yes, I'd forgotten about La Cite de la Mer.🙄

https://www.citedelamer.com/espaces/titanic-retour-cherbourg/

 

Right alongside the quay, it's a large "museum of the sea" but so much more.  

It includes an oceanarium, a selection of deep-sea diving vehicles, and a nuclear-powered submarine. Well worth 2 hours or more.

 

Depending how far along the quay your ship berths you might disembark thro the original 100-year-old liner baggage hall with its long wooden floor & baggage carousel, seating and part- panelled walls. You can access the museum direct from the baggage hall.

If you didn't see the classic art deco end wall of the baggage hall as you berthed, go outside at the seaward end of the museum (door by the cafe) to see it 

 

This is hardly "seeing France", but it makes for a very easy & interesting  day.

 

 

 

JB 🙂