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Article: Christmas stocking fillers on a quick Channel hop to Calais; KEN BENNETT discovers the English Channel is awash with bargains on a pre-Christmas sail to France.(Features)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Byline: KEN BENNETT
THE alluring lace stockings looked an irresistible Christmas present for my wife.
But at 80 Euros a pair and to parody the comic genius Tony Hancock, that is almost pounds 40 a leg!
I was standing in a sumptuous shop at the Calais lace museum, an understated, pounds 30million development in the heart of the historic town.
Here, once derelict buildings have been transformed into a bright modern tourist attraction where the intricate history of lace-making comes alive through interactive exhibits.
It was ...