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<font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="M.-L. Lessing"><span name="Dick van Faassen"><span name="Roger Thijs">Roger Thijs</span> <span><<a href="mailto:rogerthijs@yahoo.com">rogerthijs@yahoo.com</a>></span></span></span><br>
Subject: LL-L Travels</font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><font color="#000000"></font></div><font color="#000000"></font></span></div><div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yesterday Sunday I visited the Museum of "Quentovic" in Etaples (France). Quentovic was (together with Dorestad in the Netherlands) one of the main ports of the continental Saxon Lowlands in the early middle ages.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Since rail connections from Brussels are difficult on a Sunday morning. I drove to Rijsel (Lille) in France, parked my car there and continued my trip with the high spead train.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Lille has 2 main railway stations "Lille Flandres" and "Lille Europe" separated by a shopping center "Euralille" with a large underground parking. The shopping center is closed on Sundays, the parking remains accessible.I have my fixed place for breakfasting in Lille, close to "Lille Flandres" called "Le Napoléon".</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Their standard "petit déjeuner complet" costs 7 euro and contains: 1 croissant, 1 foothlong piece of baguette, marmelade and butter, a cup of coffee, a cup of fresh orange juice and a cup of mixed fruit salad.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I had bought my rail tickets on internet (30 euro for a return ticket) but had to buy a 3 euro supplement at the station. It is a very strange ruling between the railway company SNCF and the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais that results in that split. It is too complex to explain, even French people do not understand it, but if you forget to buy the supplement you get a fine of 10 euro on the train.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The trip was announced as usual by its final destination "Rang de Fliers Verton". I never had heard of the place before. </font></div>
<div><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_de_Rang-du-Fliers_-_Verton" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Gare_de_Rang-du-Fliers_-_</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Verton</font></a></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As to Wikipedia it was originally a Dutch place name, originally "Rein-Vliet":</font></div><div><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rang-du-Fliers" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Rang-du-Fliers</font></a></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It is at the border line of the region, close to the river Authie, name with a celtic etymology;</font></div><div><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authie_(fleuve)" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Authie_(fleuve)</font></a></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I didn't go that far, since I had to be at Etaples (original name: Stapula").</font></div><div><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaples" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Etaples</font></a></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Etaples is at the right bank of the river Canche, who got its name from the word "Kant"</font></div><div><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canche_(fleuve)" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Canche_(fleuve)</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Etaples promotes itself as a harbor for fishermen, but at the harbor on the river shore I saw only tourist yachts and motorboats. The fishermen are daily selling fresh fish at the little stands along the river though, but they use Boulogne as harbor and the fish is transported daily over road. Since nowadays one generally locates Quentovic at "La Calotte", halfway on the Canche in the direction of Montreuil, one sees what happened: the river gets in that many sand that "Montreuil-sur-Mer" is no longer accessible from the see, the same must have happened to Quentovic, and it is happening with "Etaples" nowadays.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Since the local musea are only open on Sunday afternoon, I had a long walk in the morning. I<var></var> had dinner at a local restaurant "Le Roulis": the fish dish of the day (12.50 euro) and a glas of dry white wine (3 euro).</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The fish plate had a large piece of cod and a large piece of salmon (boiled, not fried, Ron) served with a thick sauce that looked like bearnaise but tasted differently. It was served with a variety of steamed vegetables (bain marie) and slices of baguette bread.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Quentovic museum is very nice. It covers a time frame from prehistory to the middle ages.</font></div><div><a href="http://www.etaples-tourisme.com/www/fr/accueil/a_voir/musees_et_centres_museographiques/musee_darcheologie_quentovic.aspx" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.etaples-tourisme.</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">com/www/fr/accueil/a_voir/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">musees_et_centres_</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">museographiques/musee_</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">darcheologie_quentovic.aspx</font></a></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">What I regret is that the focus is more "all-Saxon" rather than highlighting the proper archeology of Quentovic.</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It is a small museum, so that leaves some time for visiting an other one a few yards away: the "Musée de la marine"</font></div><div><a href="http://www.etaples-tourisme.com/www/fr/accueil/a_voir/musees_et_centres_museographiques/musee_de_la_marine.aspx" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.etaples-tourisme.</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">com/www/fr/accueil/a_voir/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">musees_et_centres_</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">museographiques/musee_de_la_</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">marine.aspx</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It tells about the shippers life and work, including the drying of herring.</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Frennch "hareng" btw also has a Germanic etymology:</font></div>
<div><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hareng" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hareng</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Learn more about Etaples in English at:</font></div><div><a href="http://www.etaples-tourisme.com/www/en/home/what_to_see/history.aspx" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.etaples-tourisme.</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">com/www/en/home/what_to_see/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">history.aspx</font></a></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">So I think it is worth a trip on a Sunday. It was not the full touristic season yet, that will be July-August.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Roger</font></div></div><div style="text-align:center">
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