22/08/2016 - 10:08
<p>“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad” once wrote Victor Hugo. When I think of Dieppe, one of the first feelings I am hit with is instant nostalgia and melancholy. I have always found Dieppe to be a very melancholic town, in a romantic and dreamy kind of way. A few years ago, I spent a couple of months in San Francisco and remember thinking a lot about my hometown while sitting on sandy beaches under the blazing sun. I seemed to miss all the things I would usually complain about, such as the wind, the rain and the fact that I would always bump into the same people whenever I walked around town. Some will simply say that there’s no place like home, but when it comes to Dieppe I believe there’s a lot more to it. I have lived in five different towns and cities, and there are several that I call home, yet only Dieppe has that satisfyingly nostalgic feel about it.</p>
<p>I know that I am not the only one to think the same. I ad<a name="_GoBack"></a>ministrate a Facebook page about Dieppe and whenever I post a photo, a video or a news story, people now living all over the country or even in different parts of the world will comment saying how much they miss the town and how they are highly nostalgic of the years spent in Dieppe. I have a friend who is now working for one of the biggest companies in the world in Dubai who told me that he looks at the webcams on the Dieppe website everyday just to picture himself on the quayside or on the beach. He said that despite the high quality of life he experiences in Dubai, he thinks about the town he grew up in all the time.</p>
<p>Some say that people are mostly nostalgic of the place that Dieppe used to be, especially in the seventies and the eighties, when the ports were booming. The older generations will speak about the magic times when the ferry used to dock in the heart of town, saying that those days are long gone now and that Dieppe will never be the same again. I simply don’t believe that’s true. Walking around town on the 15<sup>th</sup> of August, I had never seen Dieppe so full of life, diversity and potential. The beach was packed, the bars and restaurants were full, adults and children were having fun together at the funfair of the seafront lawns, yachting and fishing boats were coming in and out of the port under the shining sun. In the evening, Naâman, Dieppe’s homecoming king, took to the stage in front of five-thousand people and told everyone how much he loved his hometown. I guess that in a few months or years, some will look back on that night with nostalgia, saying that things were better back then. Personally I believe that next summer, and all the others to come, will be just as good as this one. Dieppe is a melancholic town because every single generation has good memories of the place, and that isn’t going to end now.</p>
<p>Here’s to the past and to the future!</p>
Hometown nostalgia
<p>“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad” once wrote Victor Hugo. When I think of Dieppe, one of the first feelings I am hit with is instant nostalgia and melancholy. I have always found Dieppe to be a very melancholic town, in a romantic and dreamy kind of way. A few years ago, I spent a couple of months in San Francisco and remember thinking a lot about my hometown while sitting on sandy beaches under the blazing sun. I seemed to miss all the things I would usually complain about, such as the wind, the rain and the fact that I would always bump into the same people whenever I walked around town. Some will simply say that there’s no place like home, but when it comes to Dieppe I believe there’s a lot more to it. I have lived in five different towns and cities, and there are several that I call home, yet only Dieppe has that satisfyingly nostalgic feel about it.</p>
<p>I know that I am not the only one to think the same. I ad<a name="_GoBack"></a>ministrate a Facebook page about Dieppe and whenever I post a photo, a video or a news story, people now living all over the country or even in different parts of the world will comment saying how much they miss the town and how they are highly nostalgic of the years spent in Dieppe. I have a friend who is now working for one of the biggest companies in the world in Dubai who told me that he looks at the webcams on the Dieppe website everyday just to picture himself on the quayside or on the beach. He said that despite the high quality of life he experiences in Dubai, he thinks about the town he grew up in all the time.</p>
<p>Some say that people are mostly nostalgic of the place that Dieppe used to be, especially in the seventies and the eighties, when the ports were booming. The older generations will speak about the magic times when the ferry used to dock in the heart of town, saying that those days are long gone now and that Dieppe will never be the same again. I simply don’t believe that’s true. Walking around town on the 15<sup>th</sup> of August, I had never seen Dieppe so full of life, diversity and potential. The beach was packed, the bars and restaurants were full, adults and children were having fun together at the funfair of the seafront lawns, yachting and fishing boats were coming in and out of the port under the shining sun. In the evening, Naâman, Dieppe’s homecoming king, took to the stage in front of five-thousand people and told everyone how much he loved his hometown. I guess that in a few months or years, some will look back on that night with nostalgia, saying that things were better back then. Personally I believe that next summer, and all the others to come, will be just as good as this one. Dieppe is a melancholic town because every single generation has good memories of the place, and that isn’t going to end now.</p>
<p>Here’s to the past and to the future!</p>
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