"I arrived on a windswept night, trundling down the peninsula via a single slither of road splitting a forest of pine trees, their scent drifting in through the car window. This is the smell I would later associate with Cap Ferret: fresh, natural, earthy and wild. Nearby Bordeaux is less than a couple of hours from London, but I felt far from home; I could have been driving through Cape Cod or even New Zealand."
"My base was Villa de la Pointe, which, like most places here, takes the form of a white wooden shack, known locally as a "cabane style" building. Unassuming from the outside, the villa sports a stylishly pared-back interior, a high-raftered space with rattan and bamboo furniture and tiled floors leading out to a swimming pool and, of course, the obligatory pétanque court."
Cap Ferret combines sand dunes, oyster shacks, and off-duty A-listers while remaining untamed and natural. A single road winds through pine forest whose scent defines the place. The peninsula feels distant from urban life despite being close to Bordeaux and within a few hours of London, and evokes landscapes such as Cape Cod or New Zealand. The headland shows fewer signs of humanity farther along, with broad skies and a reliance on oysters rather than pearls for local identity. Coastal thrills come from surf spritz and distinctive topography. Cabane-style villas offer pared-back interiors, pools and pétanque courts, embodying relaxed elegance over showiness. The headland was captured on film in 2010's Les Petits Mouchoirs, which portrays a bourgeois holiday group.
Read at Conde Nast Traveler
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