Places to see in ( Calais - France ) Calais Beach
Places to see in ( Calais - France ) Calais Beach
Calais’ lovely beach is probably its best kept secret. The town’s fine-sand beach is just 1km from Place D’ Armes and if you happen to be there on a sunny day, it is definitely worth seeking out. The general seafront area is pristinely kept with lots of eateries and restaurants to cater for an impromptu snack-attack and plenty of fun-packed activities available to please the kids including fun fairs and a permanent mini golf centre.
The beach itself is etched with a seemingly never ending line of cute, luminous-white beach huts that give it a pretty-as-picture look. And with such soft sand, the beach is ideal for sunbathing or relaxing with a picnic of wine, cheese and baguette while watching the seagulls chase the ferries out of the port. Or if you are feeling sporty then join in with the fun and go sand yachting or enjoy a sport of volley ball.
Strollers should make their way to the promenade pier which runs alongside the beach and enjoy views over the harbour. Cyclists can use the bike path that links the beach to Place d’Armes and sailors and water-sport lovers can make their way to the Yacht Club de Calais.
From the beach a watch-path leads to the 16th century Fort Risban and to quai de la Colonne-Louise-XVIII where the Monument des Sauveteurs recalls the heroic action of the Calais rescue teams when King Louis landed in 1814. A little further along towards Sangatte you will come across the dune lined beach of Blériot-Plage. Here there is a monument to French aviator Louis Blériot who has the accolade of having successfully pioneered the first ever flight across the English Channel in 1909 to Dover.
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La Grand’Place de Béthune
La Grand’Place de Béthune est le cœur qui bat au rythme de toutes les fêtes, attirant tout un peuple qui sait que c’est ici que se célèbrent tous les moments forts de leur ville et de leurs vies.
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French Farmhouse Holidays in the Dordogne
French Farmhouse Holiday in the Dordogne:
Le Guichard is a pretty gite complex close to the 13th Century village of Grand Brassac. Our gites are set in mature gardens, surrounded by farmland and stunning countryside views. Each gite is individually styled and well equipped for a comfortable stay with own garden and Barbecue. A lovely heated pool and terrace with sunbeds provide an ideal area to chill out and relax. This tranquill setting close to many interesting places to visit is an ideal holiday destination to enjoy this beautiful part of the Dordogne.
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Weekend Motorhome Trip to Calais
A weekend jaunt through the Eurotunnel to Calais in the motorhome to do some shopping at the hypermarkets. This was my first time driving the motorhome in France (or anywhere in the UK!) and was a good test to prepare me for my year of full-timing which started April 2018.
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Places to see in ( Dunkirk - France ) Le Beffroi de Saint Eloi
Places to see in ( Dunkirk - France ) Le Beffroi de Saint Eloi
The belfry of Dunkirk is a French monument of xv th century historic monument since 1840. The belfry is also listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site by the Belfries of Belgium and France since 2005. It was built around 1440 in place of an old watchtower.
The 58-meter high tower is built of brick in the Gothic style . It is originally attached to the church of St. Eloi and serves as a steeple . In 1558, the French led by the Marshal of Thermes invade the city and burn the church. Only the tower remains. The rebuilding of the church began around 1560 under the direction of the masterpiece Jean de Renneville but, for lack of means, the work was interrupted in 1585. The old tower, separated from the new church by a part of the ruins from the first church, remains isolated and serves as both a belfry, a municipal belfry, and bitter. The original project will never be finished.
In 1782 , the belfry is definitely separated from the church by a street. In 1835 , his coronation was modified. After the First World War , April 15, 1923 , the base was modified so that it received a cenotaph in memory of the dead of the Great War, directed by Pierre Fritel .
The Belfry still serves as a bell tower and currently houses a carillon of 48 bells dating from 1962 : the drone Jean Bart weighs 5 tons . This chime is still used today and can be visited. The carillon is reached by a narrow spiral staircase, which leads to the top of the belfry, offering a panoramic view of the city of Dunkirk .
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Places to see in ( Lille - France ) Beffroi de Lille
Places to see in ( Lille - France ) Beffroi de Lille
The belfry of the Lille Town Hall , inaugurated in 1932 , is the highest civil belfry in Europe. The project of its construction results from the destruction of the former City Hall during the First World War. It is attached to the Hotel de Ville and forms a massive architectural ensemble for the Town Hall, and slender and slender for its belfry ; the whole was designed by the architect Émile Dubuisson .
For reasons of land availability and political choice, the building was built in the old district Saint-Sauveur , slightly off center from the city center of the time. The belfry is red brick and concreteCarved stone way mixing Art Deco and neo-Flemish architecture; the red brick meets the green plane trees that surround the building. It rises to more than 100m high, thus affirming for the time the political and commercial power of the regional capital.
The belfry hosts a collection of contemporary works, complementing those decorating the various municipal halls. At a height of 104 m , the belfry of Lille is also the largest municipal building in France. This site, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is served by the Mairie de Lille metro station and its ascent is open to the public.
The belfry of the Hôtel-de-Ville was preceded by the belfry of the Halle alchemy of Lille demolished in 1601 and by the old belfry of the Town Hall of Lille at the Palais Rihour built in 1826 and demolished in 1856. The belfry of the Chamber of Commerce which still exists is a few years earlier.
The belfry was designed surmounted by a rotating beacon ( 1,000 watts today) whose range is noticeable at nearly 30 km distance per night. Symbol of the influence of the capital, and perhaps also of its vigilance in the context of the 1930s when we are already preparing for a new war. The lighthouse illuminates the skies of Belgium , and can be seen as far as the North Sea .
The belfry adorns many postcards and municipal and regional documents. The belfry of Lille can also in the local or national journalistic language mean the municipality, in the electoral sense of the term. It adorns, with other monuments, a coin of the Monnaie de Paris with the effigy of Lille ( 34 mm in diameter, fluted slice, 16 grams ).
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Motorhoming in The Alps
When you think about motorhoming in The Alps, you probably have an idea of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music sitting amongst wild flowers, high on hillside with her guitar. For Joe Kay the story is somewhat different, he's been motorhoming in The Alps for 11 years now and loves to go in the mid winter and snowboard.
Here Motorholme TV reporter Vanessa Warwick talks to Joe about what his plans are this new year for him and his friends in The French Alps. He is certainly enthusiastic, so it will be a lot of fun to follow his adventures in his Chausson Flash 04 Motorhome.
It is impossible to mention the French Alps without thinking of arguably the best skiing in the world, with many of the world's most renowned ski areas being found along the range: Les Trois Vallees, Espace Killey and Serre Chevalier to name but three of the best known and loved, but there are literally hundreds of smaller ski stations hidden in the peaks.
Joe prefers to stay in the free 'Aires' in France, he says, Yeah pretty much every French resort has got somewhere free where you can put a motorhome. You can't take caravans there, but you can take motorhomes. There's no electricity but we take a generator and there's places to put the waste. It's really set up and the French and Europeans in general are really motorhome friendly, much more so than in Britain.
Joe is part of the Motorholme Invest Scheme too, which makes the trip even more affordable: Well I was looking at buying a motorhome to actually come out away and do this, but I only really only was looking at doing it for a couple of weeks in the winter and so it made sense to me that someone else was going to use the van the rest of the year. I get to use this for a couple of weeks in the winter and it's just costing me the insurance. It's a fantastic deal and I'm actually making money out of it rather than it costing me a load of money so I think it's fantastic.
Lyon in the air
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Motorhome in The Alps
So welcome to the first installment of the video diary of our motorhome in The Alps, we've just got off the ferry, the van is all packed up and here is France. We've got the map and it is probably going to take us about 10 hours. We pretty much go down to Reims, down to Lyon and accross to Chamberey and then up to The Alps. This is the first time I have actually driven a motorhome out here and I have to say it really is pretty easy. We've got a Chasson Flash 04 which has got cruise control which is great and makes it easy to drive than a car.
6 hours later, there's no worries because if I do get tired, I can just pull over and sleep for a bit, we've done that before on the way down. The French are much better set up for this sort of thing than we are, you can just pull over and sleep, but we are going to truck on today and probably get there at about midnight.
The following morning: Morning viewers, I thought I would just give you a quick glimpse of what the trailer park is like today. I've just had to dig myself out and currently we have had a foot and half of snow. Record snow for this year which is great for us, there's a bit of work in the morning to dig ourselves out, which is all part of the adventure.
Vienna Christmas Markets
VIENNA CHRISTMAS MARKETS - For this Vlogmas episode, I visited two Christmas markets in Vienna: Spittelberg and Rathausplatz. I had intended to visit more this night - there are a lot! - but the market at the Rathaus was so incredible and overwhelming that I didn’t want to leave.
When I asked my Austrian friends, who live in Vienna, which Christmas Market I should visit they unanimously said Spittelberg. It’s more local, with fewer tourists, and its charmingly nestled into tiny little streets that you wander through. It felt cute and intimate and I liked the smaller scale. There were food vendors but I noticed more stalls selling nice crafts and gifts than anywhere else I’ve been. It seemed like a place with unique items where you’d actually shop. I even met Santa Claus! When I told him I’d been good this year he rewarded me with a clementine and peanuts.
Next I went to the enormously grand market in front of the Rathaus or, in English, City Hall. It made me feel giddy when we first arrived because there were so many lights, people, decorations, and good smells wafting through the air. The whole atmosphere felt like Christmas in hyperdrive! Definitely what a Christmas market looks like when you picture it in your head, I think. It really delivered. I found booths of cute Vienna-inspired Christmas decor, a sausage in a bun that turned out to be filled with cheese, and a mug of traditional Glühwein or mulled wine. There was a Ferris wheel, light shows, and a large track for people to skate through the brightly-lit trees.
I thought I’d wander around more markets but, in truth, I had so much fun at the Rathaus Christmas Market that I didn’t want to leave. What did you think of this crazy Christmas market in Vienna? Do you prefer quiet and quaint Spittelberg or bright and bustling Rathausplatz?
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MY VLOGMAS 2017 SERIES
This December I’m doing Vlogmas on my channel! Vlogmas is usually where you daily vlog each day of December leading up to Christmas. I’m doing my own version where I’ll upload new videos three times per week on my regular schedule (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays) and each ‘episode’ will be Christmas themed from my travels in Europe! I’ll be exploring Christmas markets - and trying all the special foods - in 6 different countries and learning about unique and sometimes crazy-sounding Christmas traditions. I absolutely love this time of year. I’m looking forward to experiencing all the different ways people celebrate and sharing it with you.
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