Can you help me with this French Aire?

Sharon the Cat

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We are hoping to get a weekend booze run in June, a dash to Calais & back, & want to spend a day out & about on the Saturday. We have previously stopped at a free town aire not too far from Calais that we would like to revisit.

I would have to go up in the loft & search for our motorhome log to find the name of this town & wondered if anyone could recognise it from my description.

To my recollection it is within about an hour or two of Calais. The aire is on the edge of town, a gravelled area with a stone wall on one side & an electronic entry loo. There are modern houses opposite & a large grassed area downhill from the end of the parking area.The town plays boules next to the aire. There is a market every Saturday in the centre of the town & you can walk all the way round the town mostly on top of the old walls. There are beautiful views from the top of the walls & an old castle you have to pay to get into. There is a tourist office & toilets near the castle.

Does this ring any bells with anyone?
 
Sharon the Cat said:
Spot on, that's the place! Although, why the French named it "on Sea" I don't know.

My description can't have been too bad then.
Thank you Torchy.
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Your description was good but the amazing thing is I have never been to it, I recognised the bit about the wall
 
I'm fairly certain it's "on sea' because it once was, until the sea access silted up. If you accidently go centre ville in a HGV size van I can tell you I was 'all at sea' for a while, so the name is still appropriate as far as I'm concerned!
 
Byronic said:
I'm fairly certain it's "on sea' because it once was, until the sea access silted up. If you accidently go centre ville in a HGV size van I can tell you I was 'all at sea' for a while, so the name is still appropriate as far as I'm concerned!
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I seem to remember some narrow streets in the old part of town. Thankfully we were on foot.
 
Last time we were there, it was a beautiful day. We sat outside a cafe and had steak and salad, just as we finished, the Fire Brigade decided to have a hose reeling competition, with two teams seeing who were the fastest.
It was the perfect end to the perfect day!
 
Part of the service, just in case you ordered something flambeaued!
 
RoaminRog said:
Last time we were there, it was a beautiful day. We sat outside a cafe and had steak and salad, just as we finished, the Fire Brigade decided to have a hose reeling competition, with two teams seeing who were the fastest.
It was the perfect end to the perfect day!
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We really enjoyed our day there. We walked all the way round the town & the views from the top of the walls are lovely. That's what we intend to do when we go back. Pity is it's a 48 hour visit so we won't have the dog with us. :sad:
 
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