One Day in Northern France
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Next Thursday in order to celebrate my 205 having it's rear axle replaced I am having a day trip to France. What suggestions do you guys have?
I'll be arriving in Calais at a bit before noon and returning just after half eight in the evening. I've been to Le Touquet, Boulogne and Dunkirk a fair bit before and I've also done the war memorials. Ideally I'm looking for little picturesque towns, somewhere for lunch and rural roads, as nice as the French motorways are my little 205 isn't best suited to them!
Is there a châteaux that offers amazing cafe au lait and cake worth checking out or maybe a charming ville that must be stopped at for a gastronomic delight?
Over to you! Any pictures of your cars in these places would be doubly wonderful!
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
I'll be arriving in Calais at a bit before noon and returning just after half eight in the evening. I've been to Le Touquet, Boulogne and Dunkirk a fair bit before and I've also done the war memorials. Ideally I'm looking for little picturesque towns, somewhere for lunch and rural roads, as nice as the French motorways are my little 205 isn't best suited to them!
Is there a châteaux that offers amazing cafe au lait and cake worth checking out or maybe a charming ville that must be stopped at for a gastronomic delight?
Over to you! Any pictures of your cars in these places would be doubly wonderful!
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
St Valerie Sur Somme is a very pleasant fishing town at the mouth of teh Somme
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/80230+Saint-Va...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/80230+Saint-Va...
Abbott said:
St Valerie Sur Somme is a very pleasant fishing town at the mouth of teh Somme
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/80230+Saint-Va...
Seconded, moule frites on the quay + (if you like that sort of thing) a walk on the beach and dunes between Berck and Le Touquet. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/80230+Saint-Va...
When we took our little Fiat seicento on that ferry we got held up by a fluo jacket bloke until every other car was loaded. We were then waved on & got positioned in what was basically a cupboard. Lots of grumbling, but when we docked & the doors were all opened & we scooted off first! Have fun!
Hi chaps,
Set the sat nav to avoid motorways and set off for Saint-Valery-sur-Somme yesterday and had a great drive. The weather was on our side and we meandered along country lanes and passed through numerous sleepy villages. Couldn't of had a better day or a more picturesque route. Didn't see one other British car but numerous French registered 205's which I took to giving a flash of my lights, they seemed somewhat bemused as to why.
Would thoroughly recommend anyone with a spare day to do the same. £13.50 each way with P&O, a tank of juice and about £35 for two to eat (we both had the moules frites). I could have spent ten times that amount and not have had a better day.
Thank you for the suggestions.
Set the sat nav to avoid motorways and set off for Saint-Valery-sur-Somme yesterday and had a great drive. The weather was on our side and we meandered along country lanes and passed through numerous sleepy villages. Couldn't of had a better day or a more picturesque route. Didn't see one other British car but numerous French registered 205's which I took to giving a flash of my lights, they seemed somewhat bemused as to why.
Would thoroughly recommend anyone with a spare day to do the same. £13.50 each way with P&O, a tank of juice and about £35 for two to eat (we both had the moules frites). I could have spent ten times that amount and not have had a better day.
Thank you for the suggestions.
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