UP, UP AND AWAY

Funicular starts with f-u-n

An outil ludique is how the Tréport mayor described his city's funicular, refurbished in 2006 after 60 years of abandon.

The funicular links the lower city to its upper terrace, saving citizens and tourists 365 steps up and down. It's free of charge to all users!

The funicular climbs and descends this chalk cliff, part of the 120 km formation that extends from Le Havre to Le Tréport, on the Côte d'Albâtre. Steady erosion of the chalk gives the water its milky green color.

View from the cliffs of Tréport, a fishing port on La Manche.  For your free trip up the cliff, click here.


Vocabulary
un outil:  a tool
ludique:  playful
un funiculaire:  a funicular
gratuit(e):  free
Côte Albâtre:  Alabaster Coast
La Manche:  The English Channel; literally "the sleeve"

©2012 P.B. Lecron

THE GREEN DOOR

Lighthouse at Le Tréport

Traffic-light green makes the bas-relief marine motifs on the door of this lighthouse at the Tréport fishing port even more striking.

Vocabulary
vert criard: loud green
marché à la criée: open outcry market; e.g., for the day's catch
un phare:  a lighthouse

©2011 P.B. Lecron