15 minutes by bike from Les Hautes Mers, the port of La Meule is certainly one of the most picturesque on the entire Atlantic coast: located in the south of the island, at the end of an arm of the sea which winds between the hills, it represents in itself a digest of the soul and the insular culture.
The walls, covered with old photographs and engravings illustrating fishing and marine life, frame wooden tables on which scallop carpaccio, tuna tartare or samphire risotto are welcome after a stroll to the church which overlooks the harbour. In spring, its terrace stretches along the beach facing the famous fishermen's huts of l'Île d'Yeu.
Inside, the decoration is simple and warm. Paneling in the lower part of the walls, old wooden furniture, marine ex-votos... The decor is set: here you are in the den of the old sea wolves under the protection of the suspended whales which, in chorus, recall the original vocation of the island: fishing on the high seas.
