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Nord/Pas de Calais is the first stop for the majority of UK holidaymakers. By ferry and tunnel, visitors stream into the region for everything from a quick whip round the hypermarkets to a few nights in an exclusive château.

Duty free shopping may have become a distant memory but as every Francophile knows, prices across the Channel have not gone up and the savings are still there.

Cycling through Pas de Calais

From cosmopolitan Lille to pretentious Le Touquet and secluded Wimereux to bustling Boulogne the region caters for all.

Nord

Nord

Lille, major cosmopolitan city and Eurostar interchange with art museum second to the Louvre
Lille’s beautifully restored old town has a weekly fleamarket
Hill top town Cassel with Flemish bistros ”estaminets”

Pas-de-Calais

Pas-de-Calais

Calais’s giant hypermarkets and wine & beer outlets pull in the daytrippers
Exclusive Le Touquet with expensive and eccentric shopping – aka Paris Plage
Boulogne’s boasts good seafood, sand yachting and world famous sea world centre Nausicaa

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