title	A Brome Swan Trip to Calais and the Battery Todt, Cap Gris Nez, France - 11th August 2004
intro	Realising that it was time to stock up on cheese, and wine for Claire's upcoming wedding, Alan from The Swan sorts out a day-trip to Calais. DH and Phil pile in with Nosher; Claire and Paul go with Alan. There's around eight hours in France, which is enough time for trips to the Hypermarché, le Wine et Beer Warehouse, Wimmereax, and an old German gun emplacement - part of the Batterie Todt and probably the Großer Kurfürst Battery - on Cap Gris Nez. It's a very strange experience creeping around in the almost-total dark, seeing wartime graffiti with caricatures of Churchill and Nazi slogans on the walls, picked out by the light of a small Maglite torch.
dcp_7368	In the car queue for the ferry at 7:50am
dcp_7369	Claire and Alan do the whole breakfast fry-up
dcp_7372	Everyone peers over the side of the ferry
dcp_7373	Claire wanders around the ferry
dcp_7374	Under the lifeboats
dcp_7375	DH and The Boy Phil are armed with trolleys
dcp_7376	In the Auchan hypermarché at Coquelles
dcp_7377	DH scopes out patê
dcp_7378	DH checks out the cheese counter
dcp_7379	Paul, Phil, Alan and DH at the checkout
dcp_7380	We eat baguettes and cheese out of the boot
dcp_7381	Nosher in a hat
dcp_7382	Alan and Paul at a bar somewhere
dcp_7383	The Boy Phil and DH have some crazy-strong Leffe
dcp_7384	Claire and Alan
dcp_7385	The Boy Phil
dcp_7386	Phil looks at beer
dcp_7387	Paul, Alan and Claire look for wedding wine
dcp_7388	DH looks at wine
dcp_7389	Phil and DH on the front at Wimmereaux
dcp_7390	Alan and Claire
dcp_7392	A pile of rocks
dcp_7394	The seafront at Wimmereaux
dcp_7396	On the promenade
dcp_7398	We head off for a walk along the prom
dcp_7399	Phil and DH scope out the beach
dcp_7400	Souvenir and beach tat on the prom
dcp_7401	Walking in Wimmereaux
dcp_7403	Claire and Paul pass a very green house
dcp_7404	More French houses in Wimmereaux
dcp_7405	We stop at another bar
dcp_7406	Phil and DH on the track towards the Battery Todt
dcp_7407	We look for a way in
dcp_7408	Phil peers out of a peep-hole
dcp_7409	DH in a pill box
dcp_7410	DH comes out of the pill box
dcp_7411	We find the way in to the main gun emplacement
dcp_7412	There's a lot of graffiti inside
dcp_7413	An old light switch
dcp_7414	Some WW2 graffiti
dcp_7415	A Nazi flag, dive bombers and "against England"
dcp_7416	The Nazi eagle
dcp_7417	A caricature of Winston Churchill
dcp_7418	Another cartoon of a two-faced Churchill
dcp_7419	Nazi crosses and the swastika
dcp_7420	DH pokes around in the concrete outside
dcp_7421	The Boy Phil and DH look out towards England
dcp_7422	We stand where the 12" guns would have been
dcp_7423	The brutalist concrete of the Battery Todt
dcp_7424	Former home of a 12" gun, aimed at Kent
dcp_7425	DH roams about
dcp_7428	Wartime graffiti
dcp_7429	We leave the gun emplacement
dcp_7430	Another look at the concrete
dcp_7431	It's time for another ham-and-cheese picnic
dcp_7433	The roadside picnic
dcp_7434	Back at the ferry terminal
dcp_7435	A view of the ferry
dcp_7436	The massive pier at Calais
dcp_7439	The stern of the ferry
dcp_7441	The Boy Phil looks like he's about to hurl
dcp_7442	Nosher and the arse-shaped chin