Calais – former destination for booze cruise travellers and current home of displaced people – is not often the featured shot on a glossy tourism brochure. Post-Brexit, the desire to linger in the supermarkets pondering the potential savings of Carrefour vs Tesco has all but vanished, so most tourists simply roll on/off the ferry or LeShuttle with the aim of getting wherever else they’re going as quickly as possible.
But things are changing in the city and around the beach; it’s time for lovers of art and culture to start factoring Calais in as part of their travel plans.
