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Pro
Cheap Tobacco!
Con
Lung cancer
In a nutshell
Great place to spend money
johngayton Says: On my September Monday afternoon wander I noticed quite a few recreational cyclists and the area looks ideal for doing so. As you can see from the pic the cycle path is well marked and well separated from the road traffic. Next time I'll ask at the Bar/Tabac about cycle...
johngayton Says: On a more sombre note to the rest of my tips on this page.During WW1 some of the most horrific battles took place in Flanders, particulary Ypres and Passchendale, and a couple of casualty clearing stations were established at Oosthoek, just outside Adinkerke.There are two...
johngayton Says: This is a family fun park official tagged as in De Panne but is in fact in the no-man's land between Adinkerke and De Panne. This is a Disney-style attraction with rides and bits and pieces designed for kids of all ages and the physical and web sites both look quite...
Het Calmeynbos - Go For A Walk In The Woods
johngayton Says: This is a large nature reserve between the two towns on what is one of the major stretches of Flemish sand dunes, the Westhoek Dunes. The area was planted by the agriculturist Maurice Calmeyn in 1903 and has been a designated protected landscape since 1935.The reserve is...
The Bowling Stones - Definitely A Bar Here!
johngayton Says: This is another no-man's land place, once again officially in De Panne. I liked the name and yep it does look like there's a bar here but it was shut on the Monday that I was passing and so can't comment any further except to say here it is.Website has the info:
alyf1961 Says: The British XV corps started Adinkerke military cemetery in 1917. As well as British soldiers buried here there are Australian, Canadian, German, Czechoslovakian, and Egyptian soldiers buried here.
alyf1961 Says: Most area’s of England do day trips [booze cruises] to France and Belgium.I do not smoke and rarely drink so the trip for me is about the travel. In Adinkerke there are many shops all selling the same products cheap tobacco and cigarettes as well as Belgium chocolates, these...
Tobacco Pub: A Three-In-One Place!
johngayton Says: This was an almost ideal little find for me on my March 2011 visit, and it provided me with a little chuckle. Tobacco Pub is foremostly an other tobacco shop which has the added bonus of having a cafe-bar which offers a small range of simple snacky-stuff and...
De Verloren Gernoare: If You Find "The Lost Prawn" - Eat It!
johngayton Says: Normally my tobacco runs take me to Adinkereke on a Monday when De Verloren Gernoare is closed for the day (just like my place is and hence my Monday travels). This time round though where I was working was closed for a week for a major refurb and so I made a mid-week trip...
De Kusttram - A Bit Of A Disappointment
johngayton Says: Having finally gotten the time off to explore a bit more of Belgium I decided to have an overnight stop at Ostend after I'd done my tobacco shopping (and had an excellent lunch) here in Adinkerke. This also gave me the opportunity to ride the Coast Tram between the two.As a...
johngayton Says: This looks like an interesting journey. The Belgian Coast Tram is reckoned to be the longest tram line in the world, following almost the entire Belgian coastline from De Panne, on the French border, to Knokke, on the Dutch border. There are a total of 70 stops over the 68...
Nice Train Station - Scruffy Trains Though!
johngayton Says: Adinkerke's train station is actually called De Panne but seems to be niether in De Panne nor in Adinkerke, both being a kilometre or so distant. I'm not sure whether there's a bus connection to Adinkerke but it's only a 10 minute or so walk to the south. There is a tram...
Avenue 69: Another alternative from the mainstream LOL ;)
johngayton Says: This was window shopping for me as I didn't feel inclined to pop in to see what was on offer but an interesting shop nevertheless. I like the purple-faced old building and 69 is one of my "lucky numbers" - HA!Maybe I should have ventured in as it does sell tobacco as well as...
Titi Palace: A definite digression from the tobacco theme!
johngayton Says: Rather bizarrely this little shop came up in a VT forum question last week. Not many people ask about Adinkerke unless it is tobacco-related but this post - http://forum.virtualtourist.com/discussion-227137-1-1-Travel-0-0-Adinkerke-discussion.html?s=2&p=1&l=0&pl=359093asked...
Tobacco Terminus: A Bar/Tabac Par Excellence!
johngayton Says: Most visitors come to Adinkerke for one and one only reason - to buy cheap tobacco and cigarettes. And that's exactly what I was there for too.Having done my calculations I reckoned that a trip to Adinkerke from the UK, including my travel costs and the treat of an overnight...
johngayton Says: These are the sort of little things I notice on my travels. Not because I'm some sort of "Eco-Warrior" but for the simple reason that I care.So it's good to see even quite modest homes with solar panelling here in Adinkerke - an example to us all.
jmmorgan Says: Sometimes people will approach you in the street to sell you cheap tobacco. This is fake. Only buy from the shops. They sell proper stuff.
jmmorgan Says: Don't pack a thing you need all your space for your booty! Anyway you are only going on a day trip.
More Than Just A Tobacco Town #2
johngayton Says: Adinkerke sits scenically astride the Nieuport-Duinkerke canal, the 19 km waterway which connects Nieuport, in Belgium, and Dunkerke, in France and provides an inland waterway connecting the two ports (and of course their respective countries).As you can see from the pic the...
More Than Just A Tobacco Town #1
johngayton Says: The suffix "kerke" in Flemish simply means "church". I've no idea about the "Adin" bit but the church here is one of the main places of worship in the area.Dedicated to Saint Audomarus (an especially devout 7th century Flemish bishop) the present-day church was built in 1856...
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Everything is at half UK prices. This is the place for all your smoking needs.
Q: I was in Adinkerke a couple of weeks ago and came across a shop that sold all sorts of garden ornaments (big and small gnomes,...
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Many years ago I always used to go over to Calais, in France, for my tobacco runs. Then the French decided to squeeze the taxation on it and so I switched to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Amsterdam...
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Why are all the cars in Adinkerke British? Because cigarettes in belgium are half the price of cigarettes in the UK. Yes I am one of those people who twice a year travel to Adinkerke, the first town...
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Theres only one reason I can think of as to why Brits come here in their droves. Cheap tobacco. Thats about it, really. Oh, and Belgian chocs, of course. Its like arriving in Tescos car park. Cheaper...
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