GaKaye said:
Not totally blocking the beach with chairs and prohibiting them completely are two very different things. I agree with your hope that something is lost in the translation. Perhaps one of our French-speaking members can read the document in its original language and clarify this for us.
We've never actually spent a beach day on Grand Case, but were looking forward to trying both Rainbow and Captain Frenchy's this trip.
Nothing was lost in my translation. <wink> I was born in France and lived there for 37 years prior to moving to the US. By the way, I'm Philippe.
The communique pretty much says what you wrote. It doesn't say, "no umbrellas, no lounge chairs on the beach", it says "no occupation of the beach by lounge chairs and umbrellas" which means, businesses can't use the entire width of the beach and must leave enough room for people to walk along the beach.
