The Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse by guest writer Mary Johns.
The Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse has over the centuries been a place which took both the body and...
The revamped Battle of Agincourt Museum (officially the 1415 Azincourt Center) aims to tell the true story of the great 15th-century battle and it does a great...
Guide to Calais? A great city? Yes, I love the place and it's had a hard time in the past persuading people to stay rather than leave the ferry port and get o...
A Lace and Fashion Museum in Calais? Well, yes…all that and more is on display here at the Cité Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode (International Cent...
Ors is a perfectly ordinary looking little village in Nord-Pas de Calais, near the small town of Le Cateau-Cambresis. Driving north out of the village into the...
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Centre (CWGC) opened a new centre in Beaurains just south of Arras in Pas-de-Calais in the summer of 2019. It’s a major ...
Have you heard of Château Hardelot? If not, you're in for a treat.
It's one of the prettiest, and least known, attractions on the fabulous stretch of north...
What were
your first memories of France?
Mine were of lying in a bunk with my mother on a ferry from Newhaven to Dieppe. I was four years old and very sick;...
Seaside Resorts in northern France? I'll be the first to admit that north France is not high on most Brits' list of holiday options. But having spent quite som...
Between June 1944 and March 1945, Hitler’s V1 and V2 rockets hit London. But there was a third weapon being developed, the V3, in the secret Mimoyecques fortre...
