Calais

City, village, …

Calais, France

A French port city on the English Channel.

When travelling to London, Johann Conrad Fischer usually took the ferry from Calais to Dover.

Traveljournal 1814

Paris–Dover, 18–21 August 1814
Final visits in Paris, 12–17 September 1814

Traveljournal 1825

Montbéliard–Calais, 1-6 June 1825
Calais–London, 7 June 1825
Dover–Paris, 18-20 July 1825

Traveljournal 1825–1827

Journey home via Paris, 13-21 October 1827

Traveljournal 1845

Paris hat fashions, the mint and onward journey, 19 July 1845
Boulogne–Calais, 20 July 1845
Crossing the Channel and Mr. Hamer’s travel tips, 21 July 1845
Last errands in London, 3 August 1845

Traveljournal 1851

Ostend–Mannheim, 10–11 July 1851

Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.

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Cite as: Calais. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/places/gfa-places-1607, viewed on 6 June 2025.

[[title]] — Harbour of Calais (print by Y. le Gouaz after a drawing by Nicolas Ozanne, 1776)