FRENCH TUITION & DISCOVERY

in Lille - Armentières region

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Sample programme:

 

Day 1

• Meeting host families.

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Day 2

• Day with the family (Saturday or Sunday).

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Day 3

• 08:00 Departure from meeting point.
• 08:30/11:30 French tuition. Time for lunch.
  Guided walk in English of Armentières: visit du belfry (depending on the number of participant, the group could be separated in 2 or 3 smaller groups to climb up the belfry)
  Visit of the "Museum of waffle" (visit & taste)
  Detente : bowling.
• 18:30 Return to the meeting point.

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Day 4

• 08:00 Departure from meeting point.
• 08:30/11:30 French tuition.Visit of the canadian memorial "Cote 62" Sanctuary Wood Museum (weapons and objects are exhibited and outside trenches have been preserved).
  Stop at the Tyne Cot Cimetary & Memorial of the Missing, and then continuation to YPRES. Free discovery of the town and walk alongside the ramparts, the Menin Gate all the way to the British Cemetery. Free time for shopping until:
• 20:00 to attend the « Last post sounding » close to the Menin Gate Memorial in memory of the soldiers of the British Empire killed in the Ypres Salient area.
• 21:00 Return to the meeting point.

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Day 5

• 08:00 Departure from meeting point.
• 08:30/11:30 French tuitio. Time for lunch. Visit of the Mining Centre of Lewarde, the biggest mining museum of France: discovery of mining and of the daily life of miners. 1 hour tour inside the mine's galleries.
• 18:30 Return to the meeting point.

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Day 6

• 07:30 Full day excursion to Eurodisney OR Parc ASTERIX
• 21:00 Return to the meeting point.

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Day 7

• 08:00 Departure from meeting point.
• 08:30/11:30 French tuition. Time for lunch.
• 13:30 Excursion to LILLE: Guided visit of Lille and free time for shopping in a mall: Euralille.
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• Excursion to ARRAS: Visit of the WellingtonQuarry: discovery of the soldiers' underground universe in 1917 (20m below ground discover how the soldiers lived in the quarries during the week before the 1917 spring offensive. Then, like them, come out of this shelter and via a film, discover the shock that was the
  9th April Battle of Arras).
  Free time for shopping in the beautiful Arras city center.
• 18:30 Return to the meeting point.

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Day 8

• 08:00 Departure.