Calais Travel Blogs

So after hitching to Calais from Brussels and having to spend the night sleeping on the floor at the ferry terminal, I get ready to catch the first boat in the morning to Dover and what do I know, rather than just walking through as is the normal immigration procedure in my experience, I end up bei…

Took the ferry across the Strait of Dover. I really liked the White Cliffs of Dover. Very neat looking!

I have now been working more than 3 years in the lovely city of Brussels and I have the last 18 months had the fortune of living here full time. One of the first things I have become to understand is why expats don't want to leave again. When I arrived I had a goal of walking the streets of Brussels and driving the roads of Belgium. One of my goals here is to visit all large cities in Belgium and afterwards know a lot about Belgium.

Looks like this part of our trip was disaster in many ways.................  Even my blog of it dissappeared so I will have to start it again.!! Left London bound for Dover and the ferry with many of my family text messaging us to wish us well.  The coutryside was looking good with Sprin…

As mentioned, Calais is more or less a ghost town. It's a port city, and a travel hub, but that isn't as exciting as it sounds. You don't get an overwhelming sense of France like you do in, say, Paris, but if you're not expecting much it can be a pleasant place to spend a day. Unfortunately for us,…

Versailles is quite close so we are there in no time at all.  For once parking is easy in the huge cobbled square in front of the palace.  We choose our passes for the places we want to visit in the palace and gardens and begin the tour.  An audio tour seems to be the best bet as&nbs…

10:58 AM (French Time): The Eurostar we are on is hurtling through the French countryside, having just emerged from the Chunnel. 150 mph? I don’t know – I’m too lazy to fetch my GPS to find out. But it’s fast. Except for the red-roofed houses scattered everywhere, the rolling hills and dens…

so I went to Lille for the weekend. Lille is a big city in Northern France, its approximately the 10th largest city in France and is very beautiful.

A long weekend in Normandy, the DDay landing beaches-Arromanches, Bayeux, le Mont St Michel, Honfleur

Roadtrip around Europe

A few friends and I decided to do something different for New Years and spend it in Paris- well we stayed in Saint Denis (Boo) for cheapness but used the metro to get around everyday. It was the best New Years ever, full of drunken fun! Well apart from my friend getting her purse stolen on the metro!

Calais isn't really much of a place. It's a port town, and has been for it's entire history. It shows. Fortunately, there isn't a great deal of reason to hang around town, unless you're particularly keen on cheap wine. We did pick up a fantastic 1kg bottle of Dijon mustard - for 70 pence. She ain't…

Off2Scotland with Mother Earth,2protest against the Trident Submarines; the nuclear weaponry of the UK. Lots of teambuilding; then blocking the military base of Faslane, where the submarines are docked; &fun in custody. Great trip & group we had.

After conquering the rough English Channel we finally made it to France. We had to go through customs where we got our passports stamped. I was pretty excited about this because the last time I came to France I never got a stamp. I said "au revoir" to the customs guy and loaded back onto the bus. W…

Willl try to sum up the whole 3 months of my European travels!!