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and some spectacular and historic caves to visit.

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Come and enjoy yourself on the banks of Europe’s biggest estuary. Hugging the cliffs and sheltered by the forest of live oaks and pines behind, Meschers is a typical fishing village, with its carrelets and five white sandy beaches.

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Follow in the footsteps of the famous cave dwellers, the dreaded wreckers Cadet and Belin and Jacques Mathieu Regnauld, captain of the ‘Régulus’ which deliberately foundered off these shores to avoid capture by the English! Take a guided tour round the extraordinary Grottes de Régulus, which have been lived in for centuries, and were a refuge for the Protestants during the Wars of Religion. The recent addition of the Hennessy family’s caves now prolongs the visit.

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