Category: France

  • Pas-de-Calais: a cheat’s holiday

    Pas-de-Calais: a cheat’s holiday

    For my birthday in October Steve booked us a week’s holiday in a cottage in a rural French village called Tortefontaine, just over an hour’s drive from the ferry terminal at Calais. Until then, the very name Calais conjured up for me memories of a miserable booze cruise, drizzle, catching…