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...