Etretat

Friday was spent following Arsene Lupin's track. Arsene Lupin is Marice Leblanc's fictional "gentleman thief", an equivalent to Sherlock Holmes. We watched the movie sometime last week, where we saw Arsene fighting men to attain three crosses that would give the key to open the hollow needle, all while seducing women and stealing necklaces. An interesting character, so on friday we walked around his town and visited a church that he had been in. Outside this church there was a large marketplace with meat and baguettes and seafood. Dr. Rockwell told us that this is where the sans cullotte has always been selling and working, so we took sometime to buy a few things before boarding the bus again.

Next we went to the house of Maurice Leblanc, where we received audio guides and toured the house. The audio guides were a tad peculiar because at one point Leblanc's fictional character began talking to us and telling us how he had to solve the secrets of the hollow needle and attain the treasures of France.



After that we went to the cliffs of Etretat which were gorgeous. We climbed up and there were a million photo opportunities, and we managed to see the hollow needle itself. At low tide people can actually walk out to the needle, but with the wind and rainy weather I don't think anyone was considering swimming. We did actually see some crazy guy in the ocean though on our way up to Etretat.