If you are waiting for a boat, the best way of
filling time is to settle into a café or restaurant or do some
last-minute shopping. Don't, however, leave your food shopping for the
town. Unless you hit the Thursday market , held around rue des
Halles, your best bets for shopping are the Auchan hypermarket at the
junction of RN13 and N13, south of town, or the Carrefour, on the
southeast corner of the Bassin du Commerce.
As for walking off lunch, the only area that really encourages a ramble is over by the Basilique de la Trinité and the former town beach , now grassed over to form the "Plage Vert". Over to the south, you could alternatively climb up to Roule Fort for a view of the whole port. The fort itself contains a Musée de la Libération
(May-Sept daily 10am-6pm; rest of year Tues-Sun 9.30am-noon &
2-5.30pm; €2.29), with the usual dry maps and diagrams but plenty of
contemporary newsreel - much of it, for once, in English -
commemorating the period in 1944 when Cherbourg was briefly the busiest
port in the world.
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