16 Friday Aug 2019
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Montreuil sur Mer is about an hour from Calais and is an attractive small town with plenty of bars and bistros and a town rampart you can walk most of the way round. For me, the killer app however is the aire which is no more than two hundred metres from the town square.
Christopher Macgowan
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26 Friday Aug 2016
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Montreuil sur Mer is about an hour south west of Calais and is one of my favourite stopping places – either on the aire which is a hundred metres from the town or on the excellent site which is at the bottom of the very steep hill. On numerous occasions at the end of a long evening I have been grateful for the down hill ramble to the site knowing only too well an uphill yomp by then would have been impossible. But of course for me the aire is best.
Sur Mer is a bit of a misnomer because the sea is nowhere near having receded several kilometres several hundred years ago. It’s a lovely town, very much unspoilt and this time I wandered in for breakfast the next morning and before I knew it a couple of hours had slid by and it was time to head for Calais. It’s just that sort of place.
Christopher Macgowan
@motorhomenews
31 Sunday Jan 2016
Posted in General, Travel, Uncategorized
I came across today the website of Carol Weaver at http://www.carolweaver.co.uk and it is well worth a visit. It features excellent photographs from a number of trips – I particularly liked the record of aires she has visited.
By coincidence I was checking out an aire myself in Montreuil-sur-Mer this morning – ideally located a couple of hundred metres from the main square.
Christopher Macgowan
@motorhomenews
