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Calais par AVERTIE89 sur Vacanceo.comUp early today to get to the Eurotunnel with a priest friend for a day trip to Sangatte, near Calais. We stopped in at the Cité Europe shopping mall to buy some good tea, olive oil, a couple of electronic items and a few bottles of nice wine before having a very reasonably-priced lunch at a fish restaurant.
We had enough time for a visit to Bleriot Plage (I did not have my camera but the photo above captures the scene) and saw some windsurfers skating and jumping over the waves of the Channel. This was the site from which Louis Bleriot made the first cross-channel flight in 1909, winning the £1000 prize offered by the Daily Mail.Back in time for a quiet Low Mass in my Church.
6 comments:
A few bottles of nice wine, eh?
Ok, (1) when's the party, and (2) am I invited??
;-)
:-D What in blazes is going on in England that you can't buy good tea over there?!
Hey! I wanna go to the beach!
GOTO - in some places, you can get very good tea. But there is a much better variety at Carrefour (a bog-standard French hypermarket). It is indeed a sad comment on English tastes these days.
Louis Bleriot flew the Channel on 25th July - Humanae Vitae day - a precious day - St James the Great - St Christopher - St Cucuphas [patron saint of petty thieves and hunchbacks]- Constantine declared emperor - the recapture of Constantinople - the conversion of Henry IV - the first public display of the telegraph - 1st transatlantic radio broadcast - the fall of mussolini - oh and it's also the birthday of a worthless [but well-meaning]reprobate and sinner too !
Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby was born on Humanae vitae's 10th anniversary - I sometimes wonder if it wasn't intentional ?
Sounds like the perfect day,how wonderful.
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