Calais, France Travel Blogs

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Aug 28, 2007

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Lest we Forget....
Jun 16, 2007 (45 photos)

... this place.   The Canadian division was called on by the British Crown to help the campaign against the Germans in France. Being part of the Commonwealth as they were, they launched the largest artillery barrage in history up to that point.   ...

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

... earth itself and transports vehicles from England to France and vice versa in just 35 minutes.  Incredible.   We reached Calais at around 7:30am, one hour ahead of London time.  It wasn't too sunny but every so often there was a ...

France, our first stamp
Jul 4, 1998

... vintage champagne !!!!! We drove for the next two days, having a bottle of S.T.Emilion, as we were in the Bordeaux area and as we were now coming up towards the border of France and Spain, we started looking for the border control to get stamp number two

Vimy Ridge
Sep 1, 2007 (9 photos)

... walk back to town with little chance of becoming road kill. Once back Meg's cider-sense was tingling and she managed to sniff out another Irish pub where we toasted a fabulous day exploring more of France and our history. Off to Juno Beach! 

The Somme
Jun 16, 2007 (105 photos)

... , so I decided to keep living the David way of life. So armed with the knowledge that I had a spot booked on a train to Calais, we quickly put a trip together. We decided to double the fun, so we grabbed Ed and Lucia of Zento fame, Euro here we come. Ed ...

Vimy Ridge - Canadian Memorial
Sep 28, 2002 (2 photos)

A quick stop at the awe inspiring Canadian Memorial

Happy Boxing Day!
Dec 26, 2007 (9 photos)

... if you don't have them in your car.  So we were off.  The ferry ride over was great.  We took Sea France and the boat was very nice.  On board there was two restaurants, two bars, lots of video games and gambling machines, a duty ...

Every story has a start... This is mine.
May 21, 2009 (23 photos)

... the same time I was so excited. And I was lucky it wasn't just me on the plane over there. I had everyone going to France and Switzerland from 3 districts in Victoria, and the Tasmania district, too. So all together, on my first flight, there were 18 of ...

5 Countries in 1 day!
Feb 18, 2008 (1 photos)

... on a ferry on Lake Malawi in Central Africa, who I had stayed in touch with and planned to meet as he just happened to be in Europe at the same time) we set off for a long days driving. We drove though France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and in to Denmark.

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 ...

Land of crazy people and dog poop
Jun 16, 2008

Not much to report, Lille is beautiful but we only really came to see Vimy Ridge. There is only so much walking you can do before you get bored. We are staying in an actual hotel,  which is nice for a change. We have a private room and a private ...

Le Coq Hardi
Oct 22, 2009 (4 photos)

With the time difference we arrived in Boulonge at 2:30 and headed south to the village of Montreuil-Sur-Mer. Sur Mer means on the sea, but deceptively this place is more than 15 miles inland. That's ok though I had been here each year while in London on ...

School Field Trip
Oct 13, 2009

... trip each semester. This first field trip we went on went to Couzy, Laon, Lille, and Amiens. All are in Northern France. All 41 students went along with three of our professors, history, design and structures. We also had a sketching guest teacher for the ...

Ice-skating and Lille
Mar 27, 2009 (7 photos)

... Lille that had a bunch of cute boutiques.  We also grabbed some Chinese food for a snack.  After that we had to head back to the train station to get home.  It was nice to see another city in France, even if it was only for a day. 

Goodbye Paris, Hello Lille
Nov 25, 2009

I just arrived in Lille just over an hour ago by TGV (in right around an hour from Paris, super fast).  I got a bit lost arriving to my new host's house, but here I am, safe and warm.  I'll stay here till Friday, when we carpool (two groups in ...

Our Train trip to London
Apr 11, 2006

Calais is the only stop for the train on the London to Paris train.

Interactive France and Germany
Dec 28, 2004 (1 photos)

Once I was back in France, I immediately felt quite sick. I spent the first day in Lille but missed out on really seeing the city because I was utterly exhausted. Not only that, but the day was so foggy that you couldn't really see the tops of the ...

Random Train to Lille!
Oct 25, 2008 (7 photos)

Random Train to Lille! Ended up in Lille France only to find out that there are no rooms anywhere in the entire town... Perfect... So I do what any traveler does....start begging! I was able to grab someone's cancellation and well, thank goodness it's ...

Lille, Champagne & Brugge (Part 1)
Mar 2, 2008 (13 photos)

... So two days later we were on a Eurostar train headed to Lille for the weekend.  This was my first trip to France and after experiencing the British cuisine for the last few weeks...you can imagine my excitment at my first visit to this culinary ...

05/07/09
Jul 5, 2009 (6 photos)

We got up early and after a fast breakfast and a cup of java we hopped in the car direction Lille. The drive was long and boring but we were nearing destination when we decided to stop for lunch on one of those super duper freeway restaurants. And it is ...

Calais
Jun 25, 2006 (7 photos)

Alrighty, so on Saturday, June 24 me and my boyfriend Steve went off to the Northern French city of Calais from Dover. It started off a litle rainy but cleared up on the 90 minute journey across the channel. A really nice town, small and pretty. We went ...

Lille
Jun 22, 2004 (5 photos)

My Moroccan adventure started in Lille, where I was studying for a term at the uni. Lille's a great place and 'the Leeds group' real and adopted were fantastic. It was a lovely relaxing few months. Lille was City of Culture that year and there was loads ...

Calais, France Ferry Crossing to Brugge
Dec 21, 2008 (1 photos)

Once we got to Calais we had a quick drive through France's industrial belt, or the West Virginia of Western Europe.  It has 25% unemployment and was dependent on mining.  Obviously, there wasn't much nice scenery that you would normally expect ...

Calais
Aug 24, 2008

Changed the ferry from Tuesday to today

Calais
Oct 14, 2008

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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 ...

Calais
Oct 27, 2007

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Lille, France
Aug 10, 2005 (3 photos)

Boozin' in Lille

On the way to Amsterdam.....
Nov 4, 2005 (8 photos)

... wait to catch next one) 11:00am: Drive coach onto Ferry, sail across Straight of Dover (English Channel) to Calais, France. 1:00pm: (France time- one hour boat cruise) Arrive in Calais, stop off at a booze wherehouse 15 minutes from ferry landing ...