Selector
Choose one possible day.
Use this as a holiday menu: match the day to weather, energy, tide, appetite for driving and whether everyone needs beach, boats, history, cliffs or an indoor reset.
Normandy holiday rules
Check tides and wind. The beaches are huge and beautiful, but the useful bit of beach changes fast. Wind can turn a “simple beach day” into a sandblasting.
Do history in small doses. Utah and Sainte-Mere-Eglise are excellent with kids if you keep the museum/story chunk tight, then reward it with beach, crepes or harbour time.
Keep one rainy-day ace. La Cite de la Mer is the best bad-weather card. Do not waste it on a perfect beach morning unless everyone needs a reset.