It is often confused with its near-namesake, Cap Ferrat.
But though both are popular with "well-heeled" Parisians, Cap Ferret is a world apart from that "showy" headland on France's Côte d'Azur, said Johny Pitts in Condé Nast Traveller.
A 12-mile-long, southward-pointing spit of land that all but encloses Arcachon Bay on the country's Atlantic coast, not far from Bordeaux, it is an "elemental and otherworldly" place of low-lying pine woods, "vast" beaches and immense skies. Loved above all for its natural beauty, it also has an elegance "totally at ease with itself". Indeed, the villa I rented from Le Collectionist on Cap Ferret is typical of it – a simple whitewashed wooden building with "high-raftered" interiors, rattan furniture and tiled floors – stylish and upmarket, but relaxed and "unassuming".
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