Jelenia Góra to Wrocław seen from the train

Poland was the last country of recent round trip and one of the legs was a train journey Jelenia Góra - Wrocław. The line is being currently overhauled in order to cut travel time by a third and make it again competitive. The regional train 'Kamieńczyk' of Przewozy Regionalne was pulled by rented from Czech Railways class 163 named 'Olivia' (it's a Czech tradition to name locos after girls), in Wrocław replaced by 'Zosia' on its further way to Poznań.

Côte d'Opale (5): Summary

Some of French classics first:

 

2CV

Gallus

Un tracteur à la mer

 
It was a very nice trip, even though the weather and someone's bad behaviour didn't let us see all the things we planned, like Saturday's market on Place Dalton in Boulogne-Sur-Mer, pedal-train (Rando-Rail) and the marshland near Saint-Omer. All locations (those seen, not seen and car parks) are marked on the map.
There are 1:25000 maps available locally, but I would recommend them only for walking/cycling - for car driving 1:150000 maps from Michelin Departments series is perfectly fine (I saw them available at Eurotunnel terminal in Folkestone too).

We stayed at l'Ete Indien camping: it offers several types of accomodation, from place for camper only, through camping homes in diferent sizes to indian tents. Car can be parked next to a home, there is a restaurant/bar, swimming pool and playground on site. Camping home, even though tiny, was equipped in all you need to survive: fridge, hob, pans, plates, cutlery, TV, shower, there is free WiFi as well. Just next to, there is a riding school, it is not far to walk to the sea (although on top of the cliff, not to a beach), Wimereux is in short walking distance so one can have dinner with drinks.

Apart from smelly cheeses and sausages, we brought also some liquid trophies: amongst them unfortunately only cidre (this one even 'cidrier', but never cider ;) was of local origin, all the beers are Dutch.

 

Our carrier back in homeland:

 

And that's it for Côte d'Opale Tour 1-4/06/2013

Côte d'Opale (4): Les trains

The camping site we stayed in was located next to the railway line - la ligne côte d’Opale or from timetable point of view line 11/12 (Paris - Boulogne - Calais - Hazebrouck - Lille). It serves mostly local stopping trains, but there are also fast services including TGV. There is some goods traffic too,but I didn't manage to catch any goods train.

 02.06.2013 TER42931 16.12 Calais-Ville - Étaples-le-Touquet exits the tunnel under Boulogne-sur-Mer's Upper Town on the way to the main station

 02.06.2013 unidentified TGV enters the tunnel under Boulogne-sur-Mer

 02.06.2013 TER42359 20.36 Étaples-le-Touquet - Calais-Ville passes our camping site in Honvault

03.06.2013 TER42629 7.48 Calais-Ville - Boulogne-Ville at Honvault

03.06.2013 TER48865 16.24 Amiens - Calais-Ville crossing the viaduct in Wimereux

 03.06.2013 TER48867 17.39 Calais-Ville - Amiens crossing the viaduct in Wimereux

 03.06.2013 TGV7290 18.27 Boulogne-Ville - Lille Europe  259 km from Paris

 03.06.2013 TER42335 18.24 Étaples-le-Touquet - Calais-Ville at Honvault

03.06.2013 TER42335 18.24 Étaples-le-Touquet - Calais-Ville meets TGV7265 17.54 Lille Europe - Rang-du-Fliers-Verton

 03.06.2013 TGV7265 17.54 Lille Europe - Rang-du-Fliers-Verton at Honvault

 04.06.2013 TGV7513 8.54 Lille Europe - Boulogne-Ville crossing the viaduct in Wimereux

04.06.2013 TGV7513 8.54 Lille Europe - Boulogne-Ville at Honvault

 04.06.2013 TER42634 9.47 Boulogne-Ville - Calais-Ville at Honvault

  04.06.2013 Wimille-Wimereux station: TER42634 9.47 Boulogne-Ville - Calais-Ville meets TER48838 9.29 Calais-Ville - Amiens

 04.06.2013 TER42634 9.47 Boulogne-Ville - Calais-Ville crossing the viaduct in Wimereux

 04.06.2013 TER48838 9.29 Calais-Ville - Amiens at Honvault

 04.06.2013 TGV7546 10.03 Boulogne-Ville - Lille Europe passing indian tents of camping at Honvault

04.06.2013 TGV7546 10.03 Boulogne-Ville - Lille Europe