st omer closed yesterday

[biggs682]

went all the way to St Omer (about 25 miles south of Calais) yesterday and around 60 - 70 % of the shops were closed as they are every monday according to opening time displayed on doors so be warned . thought we would nt do calais as didnt want the maddening crowds .

even so nice day out just very tiring

 

[swee'pea99]

Brings to mind something I heard when I was in New Zealand - that if youy fired a rifle down the middle of main street in the average NZ town you almost certainly wouldn't hit anyone. And if you did you'd be doing them a favour.

 

[Oxo]

went all the way to St Omer (about 25 miles south of Calais) yesterday and around 60 - 70 % of the shops were closed as they are every monday according to opening time displayed on doors so be warned . thought we would nt do calais as didnt want the maddening crowds .

even so nice day out just very tiring

Number of years ago went to Southwold in Suffolk. Went to the only cafe in town, it was closed for lunch.

 

[vernon]

went all the way to St Omer (about 25 miles south of Calais) yesterday and around 60 - 70 % of the shops were closed as they are every monday according to opening time displayed on doors so be warned . thought we would nt do calais as didnt want the maddening crowds .

even so nice day out just very tiring

Monday closure is very common in France and I was lucky enough to be forewarned by a chap on the European Bike Express as I headed there; it meant that I stocked up with food for the long weekend.

 

[Dayvo]

I remember early closing on Wednesday afternoons in the 70s/early 80s. Oh, so quaint.

 

[vernon]

I remember seeing in guidebooks and possibly YHA handbooks the half day closing days of the nearest towns. They weren't confined to Wednesdays I recall Thursdays being a popular alternative with the occasional Tuesday thrown in.

The practise still survives in the Northeast no doubt it exists elsewhere in the UK.

 

[byegad]

I remember early closing on Wednesday afternoons in the 70s/early 80s. Oh, so quaint.

I can go one better worse. In the 1950s Shops closed all day Sunday and half day in the week, usually but not always Wednesdays, my town had Wednesday early closing, the nearest big town had Thursday. . The Newsagent opened on Sunday for a few hours, for papers and cigarettes and then shut for the rest of the day. Shops, even the corner shops, closed before 6pm on the other days. High street shops closed by 5pm. After 6pm the only outlets open were pubs and chip shops.

As a kid I wasn't allowed to play out on a Sunday as 'only the Catholics do that'. Utterly mind boggling and bigoted? Yes, but that was the way they were.

 

[Oxo]

I can go one better worse. In the 1950s Shops closed all day Sunday and half day in the week, usually but not always Wednesdays, my town had Wednesday early closing, the nearest big town had Thursday. . The Newsagent opened on Sunday for a few hours, for papers and cigarettes and then shut for the rest of the day. Shops, even the corner shops, closed before 6pm on the other days. High street shops closed by 5pm. After 6pm the only outlets open were pubs and chip shops.

As a kid I wasn't allowed to play out on a Sunday as 'only the Catholics do that'. Utterly mind boggling and bigoted? Yes, but that was the way they were.

Cinemas were also closed on Sunday.

 

[JamesAC]

Number of years ago went to Southwold in Suffolk. Went to the only cafe in town, it was closed for lunch.

I think you must have gone to the only cafe in town that was closed for lunch. As I recall, Southwold is a gastronome's delight.