Daily Archive: January 8, 2009
Lunch was in Peronne, which has absorbed Mont St Quentin and happens to be Sylvestre’s home town. It was getting a bit grey and we were pleased that he insisted that we enjoy une...
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I have very mixed feelings about this day; certainly, I had looked forward to it as another immersion in the history of the Great War, but I hadn’t banked on the depth of the...
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I should be more upset: the cherished dream of visiting Ypres and Fromelles evaporated because our assumption that Avis in Amien could provide a GPS navigator proved unfounded. But given the weather and road...
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It’s the fifth of January and we have made our way to Amiens through a rare Parisian snowfall. Normandy was cold enough to leave frost on the road side through the day, but as...
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