The final leg past Amiens and into Villers Bretonneux

2 years ago
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Several more hours elapsed and the evening was fast approaching. Alas, the sun even came out but the relentless winds continued unabated. I put the bike camera onto Sol's bike for a different viewpoint.
At about 2/3's through the video you will see some of the open sandy fields on the left. This denotes the sight of a memorial or war cemetery dating back to World War I. The lush fertile farming fields of these areas in the Somme region were the scenes of some of the most violet mechanised murder regions of the "Great War".
I decided to bypass Amiens and head directly to the Villers Bretonneux British War Cemetery and memorial. Since we still had some daylight we would stop there and pay our respects before going bak to Amiens for the night. All lodgings in the small town of Villers Bretonneux were simply closed so staying there the night was not going to happen.

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