Uninvited Sleeping Partner…
During the night a crawly insect had disturbed Rachel but Richard had dismissed this as imagination and told her to back to sleep. He was forced to reassess his judgment and apologise next morning when he came across a spider that was at least four inches from the end of one of its legs to another. I wouldn’t have wanted to sleep with it that’s for sure and Richard absolutely wouldn’t tackle it without back-up!
Posted in Childhood, Europe, France, History, Literature, Travel
Tagged boulogne, calais, Cite d'Europe, Life, Longvilliers, Photography, SeaFrance, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Uninvited Sleeping Partner…
During the night a crawly insect had disturbed Rachel but Richard had dismissed this as imagination and told her to back to sleep. He was forced to reassess his judgment and apologise next morning when he came across a spider that was at least four inches from the end of one of its legs to another. I wouldn’t have wanted to sleep with it that’s for sure and Richard absolutely wouldn’t tackle it this morning without back-up!
Posted in France, History, Hotels, Natural Environment
Tagged boulogne, calais, Cite d'Europe, Life, Longvilliers, Photography, SeaFrance, Travel
The cottage was just a few kilometres from the holiday resort town of Le Touquet Paris Plage but we hadn’t visited yet so we agreed that as this was our last day that we really ought to go and see the place and after breakfast we loaded the cars and set off.
We made good progress at first but as we got closer to the coast the roads began to get busy, progress slowed down and then eventually ground to a complete halt. I calculated that we were still about six kilometres from the town and the coast and the traffic was at an almost complete standstill. It seemed that everyone else in Northern France had also decided to visit Le Touquet today.
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Tagged calais, Commonwealth War Graves, Etaples, France, Hardelot, Le Touquet, Longvilliers, SeaFrance
In the previous year we travelled to Northern France and stayed in a farm cottage just outside of Boulogne and we had such a good time that we agreed to repeat the adventure in 2010. It was perfect really because we had little Molly, my granddaughter, with us and with Sally, my daughter, being such a notoriously untidy packer it was convenient just to take the car and fill it up with overflowing bags of clothes (many of which would never be worn) carrier bags full of last minute thoughts and all of the other items of necessity when travelling with a two year old.
Posted in Europe, France, Natural Environment, Travel
Tagged boulogne, calais, Cite d'Europe, Le Touquet, Longvilliers, SeaFrance
