Les Briques: four things in one place, on the Normandy coast

Les Briques is in Lion-sur-Mer on the Normandy coast, five minutes' walk from the beach and two hours from Paris. It is four businesses in one building: a coliving, a coworking space, a tea room and a woodworking studio, which is a combination you will not find anywhere else.

What Les Briques Does

• Wooden cabin rooms at three tiers. Single cabin from around 893 euros a month at 28 nights, premium at 1,020, and a double for two at 1,403.
• A six night minimum. Short enough for a week's trial.
• A wood studio with lessons. Actual craft teaching alongside the desk work, which is genuinely unusual.
• A tea room open to the public. Which keeps the building connected to the town rather than sealed off.
• Seminars and offsites. Meeting rooms and group bookings as a separate strand.

Why It Makes Sense for Nomads

Normandy is underrated as a base. The coast is wide and open, the D-Day beaches are along this stretch, Bayeux and Caen are close, and Paris is a two hour train away. Prices are far below the capital or the south of France.

The woodworking studio is the differentiator. If you spend your working life on a screen, having a workshop and lessons in the same building as your bedroom is a very different kind of month.

The rating of 4.9 across 106 reviews is strong. The site runs in English and French, and the building's four functions mean there is life in it beyond the residents.

Pricing

Single cabin from around 893 euros a month at 28 nights, premium single 1,020, double cabin 1,403. Six night minimum, or from 35 euros a night.

A desk, a beach and a woodshop, two hours from Paris.