Hva som skjer i La Rochelle, France gjennom året

Travelt — Christmas holidays i France, skoleferie i 6 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i januar.

Fortsatt på gang: Oyster and mussel season (1. sep – 30. apr (vanligvis)), Atlantic storm season (1. nov – 28. feb (vanligvis))

Travelt — Winter (February) holidays i France, skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i februar.

Fortsatt på gang: Oyster and mussel season (1. sep – 30. apr (vanligvis)), Atlantic storm season (1. nov – 28. feb (vanligvis))

Travelt — Winter (February) holidays i France, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Helligdag

  Easter weekend

  4.–6. aprPåske og stillehelgMye folkStengninger

  Easter Monday is a public holiday and the long weekend is spring's first big getaway: motorways and TGVs fill, towns that draw holidaymakers get busy and some rooms are priced up, and many shops close on the Monday. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Oyster and mussel season (1. sep – 30. apr (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — reisende beskriver det som høysesong, Easter weekend

Ingenting nytt starter i april.

Fortsatt på gang: Easter weekend (4.–6. apr), Oyster and mussel season (1. sep – 30. apr (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — May holidays and ponts, Spring holidays i France

• Helligdag

  May holidays and ponts

  1.–25. maiNasjonaldagMye folkBestill tidligStengninger

  1 May, 8 May, Ascension Thursday and Whit Monday are public holidays, and the French bridge the gaps with a day off, the pont. Expect four-day weekends of busy trains, jammed roads and full rooms in towns that draw visitors, and near-total closures on 1 May. Kilde ↗

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

• Sesong

  Atlantic swimming season

  25. jun – 20. sep · vanligvisHavet er varmt nok

  The bay only really warms up from the end of June and cools quickly after the first September gales. Locals swim either side of that in a wetsuit and think nothing of it.

Fortsatt på gang: May holidays and ponts (1.–25. mai)

Toppsesong — Francofolies, The Ile de Re summer

• Festival

  Francofolies

  10.–14. julMusikkfestivalMye folkBestill tidlig

  Five days of French-language music on stages around the old port in the middle of July, a hundred-odd acts, and the whole town given over to it. Rooms are gone months before the line-up is out. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  The Ile de Re summer

  10. jul – 25. augSkoleferieMye folkBestill tidlig

  Half of Paris takes the island for the school holidays and everything crosses the same toll bridge. Go over early or late in the day, and do not expect to park in the old port at all. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Bastille Day (14 juillet)

  13.–14. julNasjonaldagMye folkStengninger

  14 July is the national holiday: towns hold fireworks on the evening of the 13th or 14th, often with a firemen's ball, a parade or a concert, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Atlantic swimming season (25. jun – 20. sep (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — The Ile de Re summer, Summer holidays i France

Ingenting nytt starter i august.

Fortsatt på gang: Atlantic swimming season (25. jun – 20. sep (vanligvis)), The Ile de Re summer (10. jul – 25. aug)

Travelt — Grand Pavois boat show, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Sesong

  Oyster and mussel season

  1. sep – 30. apr · vanligvisSankesesong

  Marennes-Oleron oysters and the bouchot mussels of the bay run through the cold half of the year, and the market on the Place du Marche is where to eat them standing up.

• Festival

  Grand Pavois boat show

  22.–27. sepStor festivalMye folkBestill tidlig

  Six days at the Port des Minimes with several hundred boats afloat and tens of thousands of visitors, which is why late September here is not the cheap shoulder it looks like. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Atlantic swimming season (25. jun – 20. sep (vanligvis))

Travelt — All Saints (autumn) holidays i France, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i oktober.

Fortsatt på gang: Oyster and mussel season (1. sep – 30. apr (vanligvis))

Travelt — All Saints (autumn) holidays i France

• Fare

  Atlantic storm season

  1. nov – 28. feb · vanligvis

  Depressions come in off the Atlantic all winter, and on a high spring tide the sea gets over the sea wall on the Vieux Port. Meteo-France runs the coastal and wave warnings for the department. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Oyster and mussel season (1. sep – 30. apr (vanligvis))

Travelt — Christmas holidays i France, skoleferie i 6 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i desember.

Fortsatt på gang: Oyster and mussel season (1. sep – 30. apr (vanligvis)), Atlantic storm season (1. nov – 28. feb (vanligvis))