One Day in Northern France

[ajh38]

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

[ajh38]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I will check them out and decide where I want to head to.

Might be the child inside of me but I love taking a car on the ferry, I always get excited!

[ajh38]

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.