www.theotherside.co.uk
Interactive
guide
to Northern France's
history, towns, places to
visit, local customs, food specialities
for group organisers, teachers
& independent
travellers.
Towns listed in
Nord/Pas-de-Calais include: Ambleteuse,
Ardres, Arques, Arras, Avesnes, Avesnes-sur-Helpe,Bailleul, Bavay,
Berck-sur-Mer, Bergues, Beussent, Bethune, Boulogne, Calais, Cambrai,
Cassel, Desvres,Douai, Dunkerque, Etaples, Fourmies, Ghyvelde,
Gravelines, Guines, Hardelot, Hesdin, Le Touquet, Le Quesnoy,Lens,
Lewarde, Lille, Licques, Maroilles, Marquise, Maubeuge, Montreuil,
Noeux-les-mines, Rinxent, Saint-Omer,Valenciennes, Villeneuve d'Ascq,
Vimy, Wimereux, Wissant...
Topics covered
include: art, beer, belltowers, belfry,
befries, bread, baguette, baking, canal, cheese, children,KID
stations, chocolate, sweets, Roman Catholic church, coal mining,
factory shops, farming, channel ferries,English Channel (la Manche),
fishing, French Flanders, food, drink, French revolution 1789,
Historic Fortifications network, "giants" (geants or gayants), Dutch
gin (genevievre), golf, horseriding, horses (Boulonnais & other
breeds), Victor Hugo and "Les Misérables"; street markets,
windmills, watermills, Napoleon, seafood (moules, etc), online rail
timetable, seaside holidays, sport, textile industry (cotton,wool,
linen; weaving,spinning, etc.); railways, trams, religion,
Romans,Gauls,Vauban the military engineer; V1, V2 and V3 rockets
(Hitler's secret weapons), wine, second World War,first World War;
Emil Zola's novel "Germinal".....
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