Nice town/market/places near Calais
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Planning a quick sortie over to France via Eurotunnel, get there Sat before lunch, leave Sunday just after lunch. Apart from the likes of Bruges, what is nice nearby. I went to Bologne years ago and it was OK-ish, has it changed? Where is there a bustling market to explore nearby? What is Le Touquet like? Dead at this time of year?
Le Touquet is very nice and you may find a Sunday morning Market,but then you may not at this time of year. Look for one on the Saturday if you can. Wimereux above Boulogne has a nice 1st floor Restaurant overlooking the sea i seem to remember.
Inland try St-Omer it may just have that market.
Inland try St-Omer it may just have that market.
Along the same lines as above, Saint Valery Sur Somme is also lovely. Had a fab lunch there a couple of years back in a weird jazz themed café.... Good market on Sundays too.. If you see a black Skyline and a purple Corrado on UK plates when you are there, give us a wave - am in Montreuil early Dec with friends doing exactly what you are planning! 
Le Touquet will be dead at this time of year - just your typical, rain lashed seaside resort - when I used to live over there I used to go there quite a lot.
These days there's a motorway so Amiens isn't far away - hour and a half. There's a fairly decent market there, possibly the best cathedral in the world, various WW1 related stuff to see. I'm off there on the 22nd to see friends as I used to work there.
A similar distance away there's Lille which has got a lovely big square and there's a fair bit to see.
At this time of year I think I'd be sticking to somewhere like this, smaller places or seaside resorts might be very miserable if the weather is bad.
These days there's a motorway so Amiens isn't far away - hour and a half. There's a fairly decent market there, possibly the best cathedral in the world, various WW1 related stuff to see. I'm off there on the 22nd to see friends as I used to work there.
A similar distance away there's Lille which has got a lovely big square and there's a fair bit to see.
At this time of year I think I'd be sticking to somewhere like this, smaller places or seaside resorts might be very miserable if the weather is bad.
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