Somewhere to lay your head
ticklepin about Cottage (Calais)
Very definitely a travellers rest, clean, economical and adequate for a short stay. [...]

Camping des Dunes
guest about Camping des Dunes (Camiers)
Fantastic, a real French campsite. Everything is perfect: as long as you remember this is France, not the United States. We've been every year for 6 years! [...]

You get what you pay for!
guest about Premiere Classe - Saint Martin les Boulogne (Saint-Martin-Boulogne)
Very cheap and therefore very basic! Absolutely no frills in this hotel. I had to book-in using the ATM which would only work once I had put my credit card into it. After spending the evening in Boulogne I returned to find the car-park locked with a big metal gate. I eventually found the code to [...]

The V3 - a very, very, very big gun!
Chouchin about V3 Base (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
Most of you will have heard of the V1s and V2s used by Germany at the end of World War 2. But how many of you have heard of the V3? Thought not. Nor me, until I visited this site near the village of Mimoyecques, between Calais and Boulogne. The V weapons, Vergeltungswaffen or revenge weapons, [...]

It IS rocket science!
Chouchin about La Coupole (Saint-Omer)
World War 2 museums, in my experience, come in several guises. There are the big, impressive set-pieces you see in the Imperial War Museum, at Duxford and in Normandy. The shrines to the victims are smaller, quiet and contemplative. At the other end of the scale is the merry jumble of memorabilia [...]