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3 Jul 2012, 12:32
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Salut! I've had a hitch on a planned jaunt away this week & as such I've holiday days booked off that I don't wanna waste.
So the plan is this. I can get return via the Channel Tunnel for £44. Depart Thursday 03:30 & return Friday 22:30. Not much of a trip but gives me 2 solid days.
My question is this. What's good to see around the area? I'm thinking within an hour or so drive from Calais.
The weather looks like it'll be crappy so I doubt a beach is on the cards. I fancy something cultural... maybe visit Dunkirk. A bit morbid but likely interesting. Any better suggestions?
At worst I'll just eat loadsa baguettes & bring back a car full of booze & cigs...
So the plan is this. I can get return via the Channel Tunnel for £44. Depart Thursday 03:30 & return Friday 22:30. Not much of a trip but gives me 2 solid days.
My question is this. What's good to see around the area? I'm thinking within an hour or so drive from Calais.
The weather looks like it'll be crappy so I doubt a beach is on the cards. I fancy something cultural... maybe visit Dunkirk. A bit morbid but likely interesting. Any better suggestions?
At worst I'll just eat loadsa baguettes & bring back a car full of booze & cigs...
I do love castles. You guys have castles?
What the devil was so unruly about that region to the east of Bordeaux? Around Paris & then the U shaped arc to protect from the English. But eh?
Lille is @ 90 km of Calais, and it's a way more active and a nicer town, u may have to give it a shot.There u'll have a center called " Le vieu lille" rly nice to walk in...
Beer on offer maybe 24x 440ml cans (Carlsberg / Carling / Stella / etc) for £17.
I'm not really sure what the prices are in France tbh. The perception over here has always been that as our sin taxes are higher things are cheaper on the continent. Sadly no duty free <o/
Beer - Kronenbourg x24 : ~9€
but that's not cheap tbh, compare it to east europe countries or even spain and u see how expensive it is, depends on the life's level i guess
btw took the example of a cheap beer but kinda ok to drink. Not tasty tho
I was given a pack of Leffe the other day. Fuck that's vile. Who the devil wants to drink blonde beer?
oh wait, that's supposed to be ale
Do you ever drink non-alcoholic beer / ale?
> beers
> nothing to be elitist about.
Can tell if trolling of definitely stupid.
I remember myself amazed to even find it draugh in Nimes, South France. Easier to convey than bottles I guess. It was so damn expensive though..
btw. If you once go black, you never go back :)
a nice cliff with a nice point of view but i don't think it's worth it if the weather is crappy.
as tomoyo said, lille is a really nice city if you don't mind driving 100kms more. Im living there so if you need a few more tips about the city just let me know.
great place, plenty of awesome sceneries + massive war history (thinking about the totd battery)
+ lille is also a great city (going there one more time in september for the "braderie" :))
All I want in return is a r/GW style photoset. Torso only.
Nobody need know.
You can drive along the coast, there are many cities and villages worth to visit.
Otherwise as mentiinned above, Lille and Brugge in Belguim are very nice cities definitely worth it. Just do not stop in Calais, it's ugly and nothing to see or do there.