Arras - Hoeven Saturday 7th July 2012

As today was a relatively short distance of 250km to Home for the Dutch lads and 327km to Europort for the English lads we had loads of time to do the optional WW1 run. A short route of 70km taking in the Memorial at Thiepval where the names of 73,000 British troops with no known grave are listed. Plus the Canadian memorial at Beaumont Hamel.

In the Somme area of France there are simply to many sites to visit we had to make choices and a couple of hours just isn't enough to do it justice. But enough to get an idea of the butchery they call war.


Then it was off home (well mine) for a farewell drink.