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Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

AT#985 - Travel to Northern France

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Hear about travel to Northern France (and a day in Flanders) as the Amateur Traveler talks to Craig Anderson about his trip into the historic towns and sites of the Pas-de-Calais region. Why should you go to Northern France? Craig describes an itinerary that includes the Hundred Years' War, the Napoleonic Wars, WWI, and WWII history, historic monasteries, gothic cathedrals, chalk cliffs, and wonderful old walled towns. Craig’s Recommended Northern France / Flanders Itinerary Overview: Base yourself in northern France (Craig used Boulogne-sur-Mer) with a rental car, explore outward in loops, and start by pairing the trip with nearby Belgian WWI sites.  Day 1 — Ypres & Flanders Fields (Belgium) ... https://amateurtraveler.com/travel-to-northern-france/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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amateur traveler episode 985 today amateur traveler talks about white cliffs walled towns and trench

1:07.9

warfare cathedrals long bows and operationo, as we go to Northern France

1:13.9

and a little bit of Flanders. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Let's talk about

1:19.4

Northern France. I'd like to welcome back to the show Craig Anderson, who has come to talk to us again about a destination in France, this time, northern France. Craig, welcome back to the show.

1:32.5

Thanks, Chris. Good to talk with you again. And Craig has been on before we think twice, once talking about the Basque country and once talking about southwestern France.

1:41.2

You're back in France again, Craig, but this time you're in the other direction. What are we

1:45.7

talking about today? Today we're talking about a area up in northern France. So it's, I think,

1:51.1

what most people would refer to as the Nordpadecaille region, or they style it as the Opal Coast,

1:57.6

if you're Googling websites. But it's a unique area of very far northern France.

2:03.3

So northern being even further beyond the Champagne region, et cetera. So really right on the

2:08.8

border of Belgium and northern France is the area that we're talking about today.

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