We arrived home yesterday after a few days in France.
We drove down to Dover on Friday & stayed in The Loddington, a small hotel in the Georgian terrace just along from the docks - charming.
We had a v good Italian dinner, in a small family run restaurant & a morning shopping in the town, before catching the 12.30pm ferry to Calais.
We drove South to Amien, where we stayed in The Priory next to the Cathedral - a delightful cell with gothic, vaulted ceiling.
After Amien we travelled along the Somme, visiting some WW1 sites, staying in Cambrai & St Omer.
On Monday, after touring St Omer, on foot, we visited Montreuil, then drove up the coast, through Le Touquet & Hardelot, scene of many a past KS holiday, before staying overnight in Calais, in a lovely old house, near to The Mairie, catching the ferry back on Tuesday lunchtime.
If I were an entrepreneur I would build a decent department store in Calais & some shops & restaurants on the port, which is totally devoid of anything apart from toilets.
The highlights, apart from some excellent regional dinners - abandoned the diet for the duration - were the Gothic Cathedrals of N France & the battlefields around Vimy Ridge, still pitted with holes & craters from explosions from the years of battles as the allies attempted to dislodge the German army from the only high ridge amidst hundreds of miles of flat landscape.
The Canadians finally succeeded in 1917, with great loss of life.
I went out early this morning & washed both Volvos, which were amazingly filthy, before we went to Solihull, G to the bank whilst I bought fish & vegetables, to renew the diet & shake off the regained
3 lb!! - the cost of high living!
G gave me a camera for an anniversary present - photos to follow!
We drove down to Dover on Friday & stayed in The Loddington, a small hotel in the Georgian terrace just along from the docks - charming.
We had a v good Italian dinner, in a small family run restaurant & a morning shopping in the town, before catching the 12.30pm ferry to Calais.
We drove South to Amien, where we stayed in The Priory next to the Cathedral - a delightful cell with gothic, vaulted ceiling.
After Amien we travelled along the Somme, visiting some WW1 sites, staying in Cambrai & St Omer.
On Monday, after touring St Omer, on foot, we visited Montreuil, then drove up the coast, through Le Touquet & Hardelot, scene of many a past KS holiday, before staying overnight in Calais, in a lovely old house, near to The Mairie, catching the ferry back on Tuesday lunchtime.
If I were an entrepreneur I would build a decent department store in Calais & some shops & restaurants on the port, which is totally devoid of anything apart from toilets.
The highlights, apart from some excellent regional dinners - abandoned the diet for the duration - were the Gothic Cathedrals of N France & the battlefields around Vimy Ridge, still pitted with holes & craters from explosions from the years of battles as the allies attempted to dislodge the German army from the only high ridge amidst hundreds of miles of flat landscape.
The Canadians finally succeeded in 1917, with great loss of life.
I went out early this morning & washed both Volvos, which were amazingly filthy, before we went to Solihull, G to the bank whilst I bought fish & vegetables, to renew the diet & shake off the regained
3 lb!! - the cost of high living!
G gave me a camera for an anniversary present - photos to follow!
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