I had an lazy start to my last day. A late breakfast and then a little shopping in the town for a few French edible ‘goodies’ (cheese and saucison) before checking out around 11.30. Once on the road I headed for Saint Omer and the Souvenir War Cemetary at Longuenesse just south of the main town. Continue reading →

Today was stage one of the journey home. Whilst there is plenty more to see in Cologne my ‘itchy’ feet (or should that be wheels?) were making themselves felt so it was time to move on. If Time had been more plentiful I would have headed further afield (Switzerland, Poland, Hungary . . . all places I’d like to go) but with time limited finding somewhere vaguely in the direction of home seemed to make sense. My colleague (and long standing friend) Loz had suggested Lille to me as a nice place to stop over whilst we were discussing my trip last week and it fitted the bill as being roughly on the way back to Calais and is somewhere I’ve not been before (apart from travelling through on a train!). Continue reading →