View Beaches...... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Merlimont plage (small resort with vast sandy beaches) Le Touquet - Pas-de-Calais (Vast sandy beach in the resort once nicknamed ‘Paris by the sea’) Hardelot-Plage - Pas-de-Calais (Huge beach perfect for sand-yachting and kite flying) Fort Mahon Plage / Quend Plage -Somme, Picardy (Uninterrupted miles of sand) Le Crotoy - Somme, Picardy (Popular and attractive resort overlooking the Somme bay) Wimereux - Pas-de-Calais (Large seaside resort popular with families) Berck-Plage - Pas-de-Calais (Long sandy beach famous for its annual Kite Festival) Saint-Valery-sur-Somme (Port overlooking the Somme bay)

View Gardens...... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abbey of Valliare (botanical gardens) L'Abbaye et les Jardins de Valloires (A beautiful garden in 8 hectares of land surrounded by 5000 species of plants) Botanica - Hernicourt, Pas-de-Calais (Four hectares of wooded garden and lawn, flower-beds and water features) Jardin des Lianes - Chériennes, Pas-de-Calais (Beautiful country garden with over 250 types of rose) Les Hortillonages - Amiens, Picardy (Traditional allotments accessible by special punts in the heart of Amiens)

View Golf Courses...... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Golf de Belle Dune - 80120 Fort-Mahon-Plage Tel. (0033) 322234550 Le Golf du Touquet - 62520 Le Touquet Tel. (0033) 321062800 Golf de Nampont - 80120 Nampont Saint Martin Tel. (0033) 322299290 Golfs D'Hardelot - 62152 Hardelot Tel. (0033) 321837310 AA Saint-Omer Golf Club - 62380 Acquin Westbecourt Tel. (0033) 321385990 Golf de Wimereux - 62930 Wimereux Tel. (0033) 321324320 Golf de Be'thune - 62400 Be'thune Tel. (0033) 321571313 Golf D'Arras - 62223 Anzin Saint Aubin Tel. (0033) 321502424

View Other Activities....... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bird Watching Cycling - Pas-de-Calais (There are 58 dedicated cycle routes meandering through the region) Climbing - Passion d’Aventure, Guînes, Pas-de-Calais (Climbing trails and rope slides in over 10 hectares of forest) Fishing – (Sea) Horse Riding - Le Touquet, Pas-de-Calais (Hire horses and ride along the beach, dunes and forest) Local Events Swimming - Aqualud, Le Touquet, Pas-de-Calais (Swimming pools and water slides perfect for family entertainment) Theartre - "Les Misérables" - annual outdoor spectacle based on the novel set in Montreuil; also regular tours

View Shops...... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Le Touquet - Tennis, Golf, Casinos, Shops, Antiques and Beaches. Chocolate - Chocolate Factory - craft workshop in the village of Beussant (10km from Montreuil). Cheese - Regional Cheeses Ceramics - Desvres, Pas-de-Calais - Faïencerie d'Art Fourmaintraux-Dutertre (Ceramics/Pottery). Lace - Calais, Pas-de-Calais - Royale Dentelle is one of the best lace shops in Calais. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wine Merchants - NO WEBSITES Les Caves du Dieux chai fresin Tel:03291906143 Fax: 0321811000 Le Touquet - La Cave Touquettoise, 72 rue de Metz, 62520. Le Touquet - Le Chais, 71 rue de Londres 62520. Liettres - Cave Delépine. 62145. Tel:0033 321 39 34 43. Fax: 0033 321 95 10 49. Montreuil-sur-Mer - La Cave, 8 place du Générale de Gaulle, 62170. Tel: 0033 321 86 20 21. Montreuil sur Mer - Vinophilie , 2 Rue du Grand Sermon. 62170. Tel: 0033 321 06 01 54. Fax: 0033 321 06 70 10. Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais - Le Chai has an extensive selection of wines from both the old and new world.

View War Memorals...... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Azincourt Beaumont-Hamel - Somme, Picardy (Evocative memorial to the soldiers of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment) Caen Peace memorial - Calvados, Normandy (Commemoration, memorial and museum tracing the history of WWII) La Coupole - St-Omer, Pas-de-Calais (Museum housed in an underground bunker) Menin Gate / In Flanders Fields Museum - Ypres, Flanders (Most visited Great War Memorial on the Western Front) Notre-Dame de Lorette - Nord (WWI military museum and cemetery) Normandy Landing Beaches - Normandy (Historic beaches that witnessed the D-Day landings) Thiepval - Somme, Picardy ( Lutyens-designed memorial in a windswept corner of the Somme battlefield) Vimy Memorial - Nord (Trench system and memorial to Canadian troops)