Arras, France Travel Blogs

How to save money in French food markets
Jun 16, 2007 (30 photos)

... that by mid June it'd already start getting warm in northern Europe...but no.   Our first stop was Arras, a town in northern France which was just beginning to awaken.  There were hardly any people in the streets let alone cars, so parking ...

The Somme
Jun 16, 2007 (105 photos)

... opened. Fuck it. We decided to go to Arras first as it's meant to be a nice town. We parked in the main square. This is France but all the buildings were built in a Flemish way. It was weird. As I walked, I saw a familiar face. Here we were in Arras, and ...

Along The Clay Road
Jul 18, 2009 (5 photos)

The landscape is covered with corn fields and wheat crops and sugar beets, and it is strikingly familiar to the part of southern Ontario where I live. The lives that were lost here in WW I are calling to us; as our bus rolls along, and despite many stops ...

French Cows Say Le MOO
May 14, 2006

Wow what a day. My advice to Kristy before she left (and now to any other traveler) was "may you get lost and find something truly amazing" and it actually hapened to me today? As i stated in yesterdays post our goal today was Vimy Ridge. We got up at 730 ...

Any One Else Get Woken Up By French Rap This AM?
May 12, 2006

... Paris to chatch the train, so we were back there for an hour. We are in Arras now and it seems really nice.We are going to be here from tonight and tomorrow night then who knows. Sorry for the long update but internet seems really sparce in France. Laters.

Festivalll!!!!
Jul 2, 2009 (19 photos)

... out and played in the middle on piano... right in front of us. Got interviewed for the local newspaper... ¨Why did you come to Arras?¨ I felt too mean to say that it was cause everywhere else was sold out! Second day - Toured the Wellington Caves, where NZ ...

Clean
Aug 25, 2007 (7 photos)

Formule 1 Arras France

The Mission
Jul 19, 2006 (2 photos)

... crowned. After a night there, off to Amiens and then Arras. Hotness, tiredness, etc. kept us from adventuring too far out of Arras, but we discovered Vimy Ridge the next day (missed the Prime Minister of Canada there by 30min). When we got off the train in ...

Beaumont Hamel
Jul 16, 2009 (2 photos)

Today we left Dieppe for the battle grounds of the First World War. As we drove we saw many farmers' fields filled with wheat, sugar beets, some cabbage and potatoes. A big part of our day was a visit to Beaumont-Hamel a national historic site with ...

Day Two: Boulougne to Arras (via Hesdin)
Apr 2, 2008 (3 photos)

... i meekly accepted my fate as a cyclist and took the back roads. Nine bumb numbing hours later I was very happy to get to Arras. Felt like giving it up by lunchtime but the thought of such a humiliating start and a very large helping of energy drink got me ...

reconnecting with friends
Sep 9, 2005 (3 photos)

Just an update to put some photos into this. Not sure if all is in sync, but at least the info and photos are there....

Vimy Ridge
Mar 10, 2008

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A striking monument
Jul 10, 2007 (12 photos)

... good old fashioned traveling:  Fly from Dublin to Charleois, Belgium; bus across the boarder to Lille, France;  then another train to Arras.  Then, with everything and everyone in French,  got to navigate the twisted streets to the ...

The Western Front - Fromelles
Apr 21, 2009

... from this memorial at the 'Sugarloaf'.  This was the first action the Australians were fully engaged as a fighting force in France.     Just 50m down the road towards the Allied Trench line is a cemetery - the only fully Australian ...

Arras
Jun 26, 2008 (2 photos)

Arras, in northern France was a cute little town where we bougth croissants for breakfast every morning

Day Trip 3 - Vimy Ridge
Jun 13, 2007

Vimy Ridge

Vimy Ridge
Aug 11, 2009

... a quick scan of the trains and noticed that a train went into the place we wanted to be. We thus changed plans again and went to Arras (the town near Vimy Ridge). Again we had arrived late and the cost to rent a car was the same as renting a taxi so we ...

Vimy Memorial
Jul 31, 2008 (1 photos)

Fascinating tour of the Canadian tunnels and trenches at Vimy, near Arras. 10 degrees down below; 32 on the roads! Vimy Memorial

Vimi Ridge
Mar 31, 2001

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From Santiago de Compostela to the Channel
Dec 24, 2008 (54 photos)

... . I drive the rest of the day without stopping, except for petrol (about 700kms), and arrive that evening in Arras in northern France – site of a major battle in WW2 and also the name of one of the best Australian sparkling wines (from ...

Le Grand Place of Arras: Saturday Flea Market
Sep 12, 2006 (2 photos)

... show perfectly Dutch names, and those people say they are of Dutch descent - but none speaks a word of Dutch. Now: Arras is deep in France territory and there is another sovereign kingdom, the one of the Belgians (who do not have a Belgian language, true?) ...

in Arras
Mar 25, 2009

... nbsp; Cy will be impressed. It is a very sad & moving thing to visit all the war grave sites. Have taken over 300 pix so far! The question of the day: Why do the stop signs here in France say 'STOP' and not 'Arret'?????????????????? Bob

Getting going
May 27, 2008

... shut, We opted for the pizza shop and got a couple of beef sandwhiches and returned to our B&B disshartened, was this what France was to be like everything shut including the cafes by 8pm? Our hosts were on the mark and offered us more beer and food, ...

part one
Jul 23, 2007

first place we visited.  The square in front of Arras railway station contains not only the impressive town war memorial, but this reminder that the men of the Tank Corps fought here in 1917, and their sons returned 23 years later

Vimy Ridge - feeling so proud to be Canadian
Jul 25, 2006 (2 photos)

Back to Northern France for more war monuments, this time the Canadian monument on Vimy Ridge. Did I mention that I loved Northern France? I don't know why but the towns just seem so cute. Arras is the closest town to Vimy Ridge and the main buildings ...

Pozieries and Day 1 of the Somme
Apr 22, 2009

... apart of Canada).    I gave the children each one soldier - before we left home to visit whilst in the battlefields of France.  We met Jack's soldier first - he was SGT Claude Castleton VC - he had ran into No Man's Land in the area of ...

arras
Sep 4, 2002

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World War 1
Jul 3, 2008 (5 photos)

Left Paris at 7:52 and arrived in Arras 8:52.  The town was just waking up and Phillip at our hotel welcomed us.  Our first stop was the Wellington Quarry which just opened this past April:  This quarry was used in WW1...tunnels built 30 ...

France-Vimy Ridge
Jul 30, 2007 (5 photos)

Being that Vimy Ridge is an important part of Canadian history, we could not help but stop on our way to Gruissan. We stayed in Arras for 2 nights and made our way, in the rain, to Vimy.

Vimy
Mar 26, 2009

Visited Vimy to-day.  Wx was cold, windy, rainy, blustery and altogether quite disagreeable.  Nevertheless, I'm glad we went.  Very sobering experience.  The memorial is truly spectacular and thought-provoking. Also toured the ...