In 2024 and 2025 about 30 Kings Head players and friends travelled to Dunkirk for a May Bank Holiday weekend and played a friendly blitz tournament in L'Estaminet Flamande near the Pole Marine shopping centre. It is possible that we shall do the same in 2026. email jon.selcox@ntlworld.com if you are interested.
The Dunkirk tourism website contains lots of useful information for exploring Dunkirk. The beach is huge and beautiful with plenty of bars and restaurants, an art museum, a museum of the 1940 events on the beach and even a casino.
Since 2019 Dunkirk buses have been free of charge: see the Dunkirk buses website for details, maps etc. The exception is Route 20 which crosses the border to Adinkerke in Belgium: there is a small fare to pay on this route if you are crossing the border.
Each year (in February / March), the Cappelle la Grande Chess Club organises a 9-round Open International tournament in the Palais des Arts. See the FIDE calendar near the tournament date. English players, including some from the Kings Head Chess Club, regularly take part.