The house of Françoise Gambais and her husband, Michael, has been a farm for many years. The large barn still smells slightly of livestock. Upstairs, directly under the beamed roof you can still smell the hay that was stored here in the autumn.  Daughter Claire loves it up here. Its where she plays with her friend Danielle le Perray, who lives in the lighthouse and Francine Honfleur, from the shipping shop "Cerele Nautic", making up fairytale-like fantasies. Stories about elves, fire-breathing dragons and brave knights.

But the front room, which has been converted into a cheese shop, has no scent of fairy-tales. Here it smells of the many cheeses produced in the district."Fromage Blanc", "Camembert", "Livarot" and "Pont l'Evèque". Lucien Chantiers, the boat repairman, comes once a week to buy a strong "Pavé d'Auge" that he believes keeps him supple. The pastor Henry Thiory is another regular customer at the Fromagerie. On Sundays, in his "Eglise Sainte Véronique", when he leads the community in the Kyrie Elyson he wants to be in good voice and he believes that a large chunk of fresh "Chavignol" helps here. Françoise serves her customers in the shop while Michael travels throughout the district with his horse and cart to buy the highest quality cheeses from the farmers. And if during his travels he comes across a vineyard producing a good wine at a good price, the quality of which pleases him, he’s only too happy to take a few cases back for his customers. Sometimes he sells this, for example to "Restaurant Deauville" belonging to Anne Chailly, who comes to the shop every week to buy, of course, a whole "Deauville" cheese. This is a rare treat accompanied by a good wine.