One of the places we visited on our recent trip to France was Wissant. It’s a pretty seaside town located in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, just over 10 miles away from Boulogne and about the same distance away from Calais. The town is one of the last fishing villages in France that uses a traditional method of fishing using a flobart (wooden boat).
It’s also known by the Parisians as the mecca of surfing due to the frequent and favourable winds. Evident by the hundreds of kite surfers and surfers along the length of the beach. What a sight though, I’ve never seen so many in one place!
It wasn’t the day for a paddle (especially with all the action on the water) and it was too windy to build sandcastles but POD spotted huge sandbanks further up the beach.
With the sand deliciously soft, POD took it upon herself to climb to the top of the dunes then run down them. She scampered up then and sped down at least four times displaying the funniest of facial expressions! And falling in a heap at the bottom.
It was inevitable she’d lose her balance at some point which she did just after this photograph was taken. What great fun she had though!
We finished up with a well earned lolly before heading back to Calais. Sometimes the simplest things are just the best!
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Looks like great fun 🙂 such beautiful photos x
Wissant looks like a beautiful place to visit! I’ve never been to France, considering my heritage is French, I should visit! I use to love running down sand dunes when I was a kid, I still do and I’m 30 LOL! Lovely photos and lovely post 🙂 xx
The kite surfing looks amazing. So colourful!
Awww she looks like she had so much fun
I’d love to be that age again
There is nothing much more fun than running up and down dunes! I love sandy beaches and we live near a surfing and sand boarding beach, it is great for watching people
Now that looks like a lot of fun!! Love POD’s jumper
An amazing sight with all the kite surfers! I am so tempted to go and holiday in France next year, there are some truly gorgeous places.
Hahaha!!! I love her facial expressions she looks like she’s having a truly dreadful time!
That is such a beautiful beach and such gorgeous photos! My kids love running down the sand banks too x
Gorgeous pics – cant believe the number of kite surfers!! What a fab place to blow away the cobwebs.
I loved that they were all flying kites and surfing – I never see any kite flyers in the UK!
Look at all these kite surfers! I’m always amazed that there don’t end up in a big tangled mess.
Lovely pictures! It looks a beautiful place to visit
POD looks so big, Charly and what a beautiful area of France!xx
Brilliant photos and what a lovely looking place, love all of those kites in the sky!
aww what a lot of fun that looks, what a wonderful place to visit.
France is on my must visit places for cycling next year. A cycle down to the those sand dunes and then a run up and down them would be great fun!
[…] Having made the most of our time at Ambleteuse, we headed over to Wissant which was littered with kite surfers and kites. With it being low tide, it was teaming with people enjoying the last of the autumn sunshine. POD especially loved the carousel and running down the most enormous sandbanks. […]