Ways to cross the English Channel

The English Channel is, like its name says, a channel that crosses the zone of sea
between Great Britain and France. It was created 10.000 years ago with the crashes of
the sea on the coast in the ice zone that was formerly in the middle of England and
Europe.
Its thinner point is 34km and it’s beetween of the French town of Calais and the English
town of Dover.

This 34km are the way where the ferrys cross to go from one country to the other.
When we went to England we caught a ferry in Calais and we landed in Dover.
Other used routes are Newhaven - Dieppe, Portsmouth - Caen, Portsmouth - Le Havre
or Poole - Saint-Malo.

Moreover, there is an underwater tunel called “Eurotunel” that you can cross with your
own vehicle on the train or catching a train called “Eurostar”.
This tunel is used a lot to travel from Paris or Brussels to London. You can cross it also
from the air by plane.

The first person who flew over The Channel by plane was Louis Blériot, from France,
in 1909, but the first persons who crossed it from the air were Jean-Pierre
Blanchardandi, John Jeffries, from England, with an air balloon in 1785.
It isn’t so easy, but you can cross it swimming, like Matthew Webb o Gertrude Ederle,
who was the first woman who did it and broke the last record for 2 hours. The strangest
method was that of Bryan Allen, who crossed it with an aeroplane on which he had to
pedal, to win an award of 100.000 pounds, or the jet pack that Yves Rossy used to fly
over it in only 12 minutes.