Nine rooms

Four look at the sea over the rampart. Five look into the street, which is four metres across and therefore the quietest thing in the town.

The green room on the first floor, with the high bed — *First floor, street***The green room**
The largest room in the house and the only one whose panelling survived the fire, because it was in the cellar at the time, taken down in 1943 by a family who had been told what was coming.

**Floor**First
**Size**29 square metres
**Bed**One king
**Window**Two, to the street
**Bath**Bath and shower

The white room, above the rampart walk — *Second floor, rampart side***The white room**
Above the rampart walk on the sea side. In a westerly the window takes spray at high tide, which sounds unpleasant and is in fact the reason people ask for it.

**Floor**Second
**Size**24 square metres
**Bed**One queen
**Window**One, to the rampart
**Bath**Shower

The other seven

Room	Floor	Square metres	Aspect	Bath
The armateur	First	26	Street	Bath and shower
The corner	First	22	Rampart	Shower
The blue room	Second	23	Street	Shower
The narrow room	Second	17	Street	Shower
The west room	Third	21	Rampart	Shower
The east room	Third	20	Street	Shower
The dormer	Attic	18	Rampart	Shower

In all nine

Shutters that work, on every window, because a westerly here is not a metaphor.
A kettle, tea, and coffee ground in the kitchen that morning.
Double glazing behind the 1954 openings, put in to the original divisions in 2019.
No television in any of the nine. There is a room off the hall with a view of the street.

The stair

Four flights, 780 millimetres wide, turning twice between floors. There is no lift and the reconstruction plan would not permit one on the front. A very large case will not go past the second turn; say so and somebody will carry it, or we will put you on the first floor.

Arriving

Rooms are ready at three and we want them back by eleven. There is no parking inside the walls worth having. The nearest car park is at the Port des Bas-Sablons, about nine minutes on foot across the causeway, and it is cheaper and nearer than anything else.

Tide

At the top of a spring tide the sea reaches the foot of the rampart on the west side and throws spray over it. The rampart-side rooms get salt on the glass. We clean it. It is not damage and it is, for about half the people who stay here, the whole reason they came.