It's the Olympic effect: Meaux-les-Bains beach benefits from a wave of international tourists

Both on grass and in the sand, the beach of Meaux stretches for several dozen meters. Children dig a channel in the sand and the most daring swim a few lengths in the water. “It's true that this year, we heard all the languages ​​spoken at the entrance to the beach,” jokes Evan, Alycia's colleague. With the Olympic Games, I think there were quite a few tourists in the surrounding campsites and that they came to cool off here.” On the other side of the barriers, on the strip of sand facing the Marne, Coleen and Axel, in fluorescent yellow outfits flocked with the big red letters “lifeguard”, confirm what their colleagues say: “We saw a lot of people from Eastern Europe, Spanish and English too.”