Arras, France

... that by mid June it'd already start getting warm in northern Europe...but no.   Our first stop was Arras, a town in northern France which was just beginning to awaken.  There were hardly any people in the streets let alone cars, so parking ...

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... opened. Fuck it. We decided to go to Arras first as it's meant to be a nice town. We parked in the main square. This is France but all the buildings were built in a Flemish way. It was weird. As I walked, I saw a familiar face. Here we were in Arras, and ...

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The landscape is covered with corn fields and wheat crops and sugar beets, and it is strikingly familiar to the part of southern Ontario where I live. The lives that were lost here in WW I are calling to us; as our bus rolls along, and despite many stops ...

Wow what a day. My advice to Kristy before she left (and now to any other traveler) was "may you get lost and find something truly amazing" and it actually hapened to me today? As i stated in yesterdays post our goal today was Vimy Ridge. We got up at 730 ...