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Finally in France!!!
... looking out their windows, people crowding the street and recording the bikes. Some bikers were quite interesting too, with funny helmets/hats, and one guy had a camera attached to his head! Some motorbikes had sidecars too! (It makes me want to stay in Le Mans til June to watch the race!)
Anyway...after that interesting facade, we finally got to the museum, which was interesting, with some beautiful sculptures and some contemporary art pieces, but I was quite ...
Back again
Here we are back at Camping St Claire in Neufchatel en bray , we did about 300 miles today and came across some horrendous traffic in Deaux but made it here about 5:15 and now are sat enjoying a glass of wine before dinner. Tomorrow we head up to Calais about 100 miles so not far and we will enjoy our last evening in another campsite we know quite well chateau ...
You're a star
... soldiers lay wounded in no-mans land and those that had successfully retreated behind prebattle lines made heroic acts to try and resuce as many of the wounded as they could.
Amazing as it might seem, as we got out of the car at the memorial, I noticed another couple of, I presumed, Australians, as they had been at the previous site as well. When I took a closer look, the woman was Cherie Kearns from Northbridge Golf Club! Small world.
Finally ...
Back again
Here we are at Neufchatel en Bray there is a full sign outside the campsite but as we would have to turn around anyway we pulled in , asked if there was a place and they squeezed us on a corner, lovely campsite , lovely people and a lovely ...
Parc des Cygnettes
... through.
From here we went on to the ADANAC cemetery and found Harry’s grave; I wondered if we were the 1st people to visit in nearly 100 years.
The cemetery, which is beautifully maintained by the C.W.G.C., is one of many in this area and contains the graves of 3,186 men from WW1, of which 1708 are unidentified.
From here we stopped at The Newfoundland Beaumont Hamel Memorial. Here on the 1st July 1916 the 1st Battalion of ...