Sunday, July 5, 2015

Les Deux Caps

The Opal Coast is known for two capes, Cap Blanche-Nez and Cap Gris-Nez, both cliffs overlooking the Channel. The bus/RV parking lot for the white one was almost a mile from the beginning of the trail, so we drove on to the gray one, and, in sweltering, smeltering heat, parked and walked up to the observation deck.
A P&O ferry leaving the port of Boulogne, I think, just down the
coast from here
















Cap Blacnhe-Nez, like the White Cliffs of Dover that are just
19 miles away; lots of chalk around here, but they don't do
white horses
















Walking past some more German Art Deco















Looking across the Channel















The White Cliffs in the distance















Blanche-Nez from the point of Gray-Nose















Looking down to the shore on Gris-Nez

















Northern Europe is in the grip of an historic heat wave, records
set in London and Paris; and we were there
















It was barely bearable right on the coast; we landed at the city
aire de camping-cars of Boulogne sur Mer, overlooking the
great old harbor from which Julius Caesar invaded Britland in
55 BC, and from which Napoleon planned to invade, in the
early 1800s; but didn't; more of this shortly...

1 comment:

Tawana said...

So sorry the heat has been so awful. Hopefully it will cool off and get back to normal soon.