Equihen Plage , on the coast of northern French Republic yesteryear the English linguistic communication Channel , is a pocket-size seaside hamlet amongst a population of close iii ,000. Up until the kickoff of the 20th century , Equihen Plage was a angling hamlet amongst a dry out harbor—the sort where angling boats were launched into the body of body of water yesteryear sliding them on logs. Today , the hamlet is famous for its many inverted boat houses—locally known equally “quilles en l'air”—that serve equally unique vacation accommodation for travellers.
In the erstwhile days , it wasn’t uncommon to honour erstwhile boats— both upright together with inverted—along the coast where they were dragged high together with dry out upon the shore to hold upward used for habitation. In Charles Dickens' classic new David Copperfield , Peggotty’s blood brother lived inward such an erstwhile boathouse inward Yarmouth (equihenplage.opalenet.fr / en.patrimoine-de-france.com / Wikipedia