We left Flesselles this morning. Valérie was to arrive at 9 am, but I was still packing when she came to pick us up. When I had finished, I had found her having coffee with Josie. I really liked this place. Josie didn't speak English at all, so it was a nice opportunity to speak with her in French. No cheating with English here. At breakfast we met the other guests, an English couple from Portsmouth, visiting friends in the area who were going to Cambrai later...

The ANZAC day dawn service was to open after midnight, but we made the decision not to go until 3 am. All people attending had to go through security checks at Glissy, just outside of Amiens, then everyone was taken by bus to Villers-Bretonneux. We went with Valérie and the children. Cyril was on official fireman business in VB, so we met up with him later in the day. Guess who we would see again on this bus? Jeff. I had a feeling that we would see him again, ...

We stayed our last night at Naours. That morning at breakfast, a man came inside. It was to be our first contact with another Australian, here for ANZAC day. Jeff was from Mount Gambier (South Australia). He walked in the dining room, we said our "Bonjour" then he spoke. I thought for a minute how to introduce myself to him. I told him I could have acted as though I was French and he said he would have believed me. He told us that he rented a car to get around,...

At breakfast I really struggled. There was a discussion in French about Chinese influence on French land with the other guests that morning. Marie-Josie asked me a question about farmers passing the farm down to their sons. I didn't understand the question, apart from the basic idea of it being about inheritance of farmland. I just shut down because it made me stress and I couldn't at all think of what to say, then I just stopped. I told Cyril les carrottes sont ...

This morning I woke up early, so I went for a walk around Amiens. The previous night I was told that a very large antiques market was on this weekend. Many people from all over Europe was expected to visit. So it was nice to walk around to see all the people setting up their antique stalls. There was so much to see, and it was all for sale. I tried to take some photos where you can see down all four directions. I happened to choose the wrong time, because a truck...