Wheels Around Europe . . . . . . . : The sand dunes of Calais

Friday 13 July 2018

The sand dunes of Calais

With the weather still cool damp and windy as we left Ostend and headed for a small town called Gravelines further along the coast in the hope the weather would buck up a bit and we could spend a little time on the beach.

No chance, so a walk around the town was all we could manage before it was back to Ed for a cuppa.

The end of the trip was turning a little flat due to the weather so we had to decide what to do, whether to change our tunnel booking for Friday.

I checked the website for Euro Tunnel, to change it for today would incur a heafty penalty, but we could change it to tomorrow, Thursday at no charge. So that is what we did.

I decided we would today head for Cite Europe. It is a huge shopping centre next to the Tunnel Terminal and has a motorhome overnight parking area. It`s right next door to the Police Station and reviews state it is as safe as anywhere, probably safer.

So a wander round the shops was the order of the day together with a supermarket visit.

For some reason the satellite dish couldn`t find the satellite which was a big problem with England playing Croatia in the World Cup semi final tonight.

A Dutch man nearby had no such problems but mine just didn`t want to know.

This called for drastic action.

I decided we would drive the short distance to the coast and try there.

We parked up, had a walk along the promenade and watched the ferries crossing the Channel.

I also got a satellite signal. Why it didn`t work at Cite Europe I`ve no idea.

So we sat amongst the sand dunes of Calais watching the football before driving back to Cite Europe for the night.