Marmotte Hotel-Restaurant Amiens
4, Allee de la Pepiniere Amiens, Picardy, France
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Food, War Graves and Champagne....
... the positive side of things, it has been much warmer on the plains of France than it was in the mountains of Switzerland and Austria. On the down side, France’s motorways are all tolled and cost an arm and a leg. So far we have paid about €75 in tolls and we are only a third through our French kilometers! Having said that, the roads are excellent, even out into the villages and small towns, which are not tolled but are much slower going.
Util Paris, Au ...
Amiens WW1 sites
Today is a big travel day for us, we left Caen 8am and took the roads as per the GPS, unfortunately it took us thru smaller roads, rather than the Highways but it did give us a great trip thru the french countryside. The cold snap has come and the temperature on the car guage is 1deg and very foggy at times quite thick. We took the D613 heading towards Evreux and Rouen which took us past field after field of farming it seemed mostly ...
Lest We Forget
... Museum. The museum is made up of a collection of memorabilia from WWI with explanations of Australia and New Zealand's involvement in the battles in and around the Somme. It's above the school assembly hall which is panelled and floored with wood from around Australia and adorned with wood carvings of our native animals - it felt eerily like every school hall I've ever been in though the signs assured us that it was something out of the ordinary ...
Amiens France
... with the help of the " waiders" which were medieval dyers from Amiens. They made their fortune from the woad, a dyeing plant that produced the famous Blue d'Amiens a colour you see everywhere in the district. The cathedral is a magnificent structure with more sculptures than any other cathedral we have seen. It is very high and some of the stain glass windows are 12 metres high . At some points the celing reaches 43metres. Opulance at its best. It is getting a spring clean on ...
The Australians in the Somme
... with Australian soldiers landmarks and you could spend all day just looking at different ones. We decided to move on and settle ourselves in Amiens for the night and have a drink to make us feel light hearted again. Met some Pommies at the caravan park, chatted for a while and locked ourselves in the van. 6 degrees outside tonight but dry. Tomorrow we will visit Amiens.
A very rewarding day today.
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