could anyone please tell me if the shops in adinkerke are still 24 hr thanks
the one on the N8 at Alveringam is open 24h except sat night
malcolmj:
the one on the N8 at Alveringam is open 24h except sat night
thanks is that just of the motorway towards alveringgem
Come off at veurne, down to the roundabout and peel off right. It’s at the second lights on the right hand side. You really can’t miss it. Closed from Sat evening until sun evening.
hanson:
malcolmj:
the one on the N8 at Alveringam is open 24h except sat nightthanks is that just of the motorway towards alveringgem
Its about 5 mins drive down the N8 towards aleringhem
thanks to all
The stop and shop on jnt 1 is 24/7
The one just off the roundabout with the truck parking taff? Are you sure it’s open all night? I thought they shut around 9pm.
Daily from 6 AM till 10 PM
(UK time: 5 AM till 9 PM)
Including UK and Belgian bank holidays.
I was told it was 24hr oh well 
There’s one next door to it too so I’ve been informed that has a bar there.
I think it used to be, but Adinkerke is a shadow of its former self when it was a regular sight to see coachloads of shoppers from Yorkshire, South Wales etc doing the booze cruise thing. Most of the shops have closed now and the ones that remain do relatively little trade compared to a decade ago.
Harry Monk:
I think it used to be, but Adinkerke is a shadow of its former self when it was a regular sight to see coachloads of shoppers from Yorkshire, South Wales etc doing the booze cruise thing. Most of the shops have closed now and the ones that remain do relatively little trade compared to a decade ago.
Any idea why that is? Have UK prices gone down, or the Belgian ones up, or is there some other reason?
Zetorpilot:
Any idea why that is? Have UK prices gone down, or the Belgian ones up, or is there some other reason?
I think the biggest factor is probably that you used to get 1.6 euros to the £, whereas now you are lucky to get much over 1.2, and it was for a while 1:1.
I googled it not so long back for some reason, The Mayor of the Adinkerke area basically ordered all the Tobacco shops to close between 10pm and 6am. Can’t remember why now, but the one on the N8 falls just outside of the restriction
Harry Monk:
Zetorpilot:
Any idea why that is? Have UK prices gone down, or the Belgian ones up, or is there some other reason?I think the biggest factor is probably that you used to get 1.6 euros to the £, whereas now you are lucky to get much over 1.2, and it was for a while 1:1.
Ah, yes, of course. Thanks.
At one point on the ferries it was 1:1 for a couple of days.
Its a combination of the exchange rate, the price of fuel if your self driving and that the limit for what you were allowed to bring into UK was slashed to make it barely worthwhile for anybody to make the trip from any further than Kent.
BuzzardBoy:
I googled it not so long back for some reason, The Mayor of the Adinkerke area basically ordered all the Tobacco shops to close between 10pm and 6am. Can’t remember why now, but the one on the N8 falls just outside of the restriction
Local residents complained about the noise after 10pm, so opening hours restrictions were placed on the baccy shops.
The baccy shop In Alveringem has no such restrictions. I don’t think the transport company (J&S) over the road Is going to complain…
Geoffo:
Local residents complained about the noise after 10pm, so opening hours restrictions were placed on the baccy shops.
I imagine the local residents were quite happy when the whole town was riding the gravy train, I expect the occasional noise of a coach driving through the village at night was far more irritating to them than the constant drone of fleets of British coaches arriving 24 hours a day and the relentless rustling of Pound Sterling banknotes by booze-cruising coffin-dodgers between the coach parks and the shops where the local residents once all worked 