Day 23 Tuesday 3/09 Paris 29 deg Sunny - Enid here…packing and leaving the house in our old world movie set village left us wanting to stay longer and enjoy all the area had to offer. We headed to Giverny to Claude Monet's house and gardens, absolutely beautiful so many colours and varieties of plants and the lily pond with its hanging trees gave the scenes he was famous for painting. Not long and we were in Paris with all its lovely streets and buildings th...

Day 22 Monday 2/09 Dunkirk/Calais 23 deg Sunny - Jude here...today we visited La Coupole in Wizerne 50k from our cottage. During WW2 It was a concrete underground town the Germans built for the purpose of deploying V2 rockets to destroy London. The complex also contained a very informative historical display of the occupation, resistance and liberation of France, along with information about the Battle of Dunkirk, once again we were reminded of the brutality...

Day 21 Sunday 1/09 Montreuil 20 deg Sunny - John here....Today was a lazy day as we hung around our cottage with lunch at Chateau de Montreuil on the itinerary. We "tarted" ourselves up and headed into town as our booking was for 1.00pm. This restaurant was rated a Michelin star and it was Tres Bon, as they say. We decided on the 3 course set Menu with an either/or choice. Moët champagne to start followed by two complimentary aperitifs - we thought the seco...

Day 20 Saturday 31/08 Ypres Belgium 20 deg Cloudy/Sunny - Enid here...Another day on the WW1 battlefields a round trip of 417km led us first north to Beaumont where the Canadian troops are remembered and the trenches are left as original and descriptions bring to life the area as it would have been. Then to Thiepval where the British-France memorial the largest in the world for all the unknown and missing soldiers over 72,000 names are displayed. The next tw...

Day 20 Friday 30/08 Somme 24 deg Sunny - Enid here...after a long restful night of much needed sleep, I was able to appreciate all the character of our accommodation and the surrounds of the village. Some of the books at our accommodation led us to Arras which was about 50km away, where the information suggested the museum at Albert would be a very good overall of the sites of World War One battlefields of the Somme region this was through a 250 metre long...