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Run to the sun
Day 6 Friday
Had Breakfast and left at 9.00 for the run to the sun.We headed south first on the A roads to Bethune were we joined the Auto Routes (Pay Roads)We followed the fast train trake for a few miles or should I say Kilometers. We had regular comfort stops along the way until we stopped for the night at a rest area near Manveville just basic toilets and water.
Day 7 Saturday
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A Mediaeval Evening
... small, but it is a place to sleep and we are really only here for the village scenery...
We go out into the streets and it has just gone dark, the lights are beginning to illuminate the buildings and it really is a nice place to walk around and see the buildings as they have been for many hundreds of years. It is a pity to see those houses that have succombed to time and are held up by the builders posts and struts, etc. Some are even condemned ...
Lots of water and forest, Vic loved it!
... tried. It was just across the road from a lakeside beach area, lots of water sports on the lake. I wanted to buy an inflatable kayak but Vic wouldn't have any of it. The site was well kept with a mixture of Europeans. The first day we drove all around the lake & Ruby had a lovely walk in the evening. The second day we went to ...
Olympic outfit purchased
... are pretty limited...ie no Aussie shirts.
Photos to come later
The town of Troyes comprises many old timber houses. It is apparently the place where the old nursery story about a crooked house and crooked man lived. Was interesting and we had a good walk around, and lucky enough to get back to the car just minutes before a spring shower!!
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Wood
... stew instead, and then we found our favourite chocolate store was closed, so that the time to leave
There was one place left to visit, and it was back in France, Fromelles.
We had been here before to see the various WW1 monuments, but in 2010, a new cemetery had been opened as a load of bodies had been found from the battle of Fromelles, dna samples from relatives in Australia were taken, names were put to bodies, and bodies were finally laid ...