‘M off - Eifel, Luxembourg and Belgium
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Day 10….
Up at the crack to get into the shower before the great unwashed.
Then, off to the hypermercado for beers and to find breakfast, both of which were successful.
The Chimay market was in full swing:
Including one large stall, specialising in what I guess you’d call ‘Unprepared lunch’:
The signs are now up, with practice commencing at Gary Cooper:
Up at the crack to get into the shower before the great unwashed.
Then, off to the hypermercado for beers and to find breakfast, both of which were successful.
The Chimay market was in full swing:
Including one large stall, specialising in what I guess you’d call ‘Unprepared lunch’:
The signs are now up, with practice commencing at Gary Cooper:
I’d get free entry
I thought that, when I looked at the sign.
Excellent........I do hope they combine the drawing with the Knobbly knees competition
Ha Ha Ha; dont let him try to convince you it's all part of the fun getting lost;From Cornwall. His dad still doesn’t know the way
;; there's not much his lad can't sort out.
Is Wapping a OK?
It has been over 48H since his last report from the Chimay refugee camp
Him buying a pack of 9 bog rolls, was a bit disconcerting .
It has been over 48H since his last report from the Chimay refugee camp
Him buying a pack of 9 bog rolls, was a bit disconcerting .
Is Wapping a OK?
It has been over 48H since his last report from the Chimay refugee camp
Him buying a pack of 9 bog rolls, was a bit disconcerting .
Might have done a Steptoe-donned his sunglasses, logged on to Grindr, and gone on a …..er…….bender
Or Andy has corrupted him with the local brew;Might have done a Steptoe-donned his sunglasses, logged on to Grindr, and gone on a …..er…….bender
We used your recommendation of the Cafe De Le Pais and Boulangerie on our recent trip. Very popular it was to, so thank you. We were a little surprised that the in the Mme in the cafe was more than happy for us to consume food from the Boulangerie on her premises, although we did rack up quite a large bill! She also instructed me how to ask for the bill in French properly.
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That is an interesting contraption.
Day 13 - Chimay to St Omer
As I was up and about earlier than I had planned, I rewrote the days route, to miss out the motorway between Cambrai and St Omer completely.
It hadn’t been my intention to stop to take pictures too often, but (as usual) something or somewhere caught my attention.
The Sambre-Oise canal:
The WW1 cemetery at Le Cateau. The British site shares the ground with the German cemetery, and was (when I stopped) receiving attention from the War Graves’ gardening crew:
As I was up and about earlier than I had planned, I rewrote the days route, to miss out the motorway between Cambrai and St Omer completely.
It hadn’t been my intention to stop to take pictures too often, but (as usual) something or somewhere caught my attention.
The Sambre-Oise canal:
The WW1 cemetery at Le Cateau. The British site shares the ground with the German cemetery, and was (when I stopped) receiving attention from the War Graves’ gardening crew:
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Excellent. That classic racing event looks like a lot of fun.
Thank you again for taking the time to post and share.
Thank you again for taking the time to post and share.
The cemetery also includes some French graves, in the German half:
And these unusual ones, which I couldn’t work out:
At first, I thought they might be the Russian graves, referred to in the information, but the names do not look right. My only assumption is that they are German mass burials, reinterred from other sites, perhaps?
The British portion included the graves of two German women. I can only assume they were nurses?
As usual, the German graves are very often double or triple stacked:
And, perhaps most poignantly of all, the German Jewish dead are buried alongside their fallen non-Jewish comrades. I can only wonder what became of these soldiers’ families with the next 30 or so years. It is easy to assume that they may well all have been murdered:
And these unusual ones, which I couldn’t work out:
At first, I thought they might be the Russian graves, referred to in the information, but the names do not look right. My only assumption is that they are German mass burials, reinterred from other sites, perhaps?
The British portion included the graves of two German women. I can only assume they were nurses?
As usual, the German graves are very often double or triple stacked:
And, perhaps most poignantly of all, the German Jewish dead are buried alongside their fallen non-Jewish comrades. I can only wonder what became of these soldiers’ families with the next 30 or so years. It is easy to assume that they may well all have been murdered:
Looking back over the cemetery, at the rolling open fields, stretching away as far as the eye can see, it is hard to imagine that this was once all churned to pieces, a real ‘killing ground’ for four years:
PS I realise now that I used the cross pedestal as a table for my helmet, which I am a bit ashamed of. Though the War Graves crew also used it for the Stihl leaf blower.
PS I realise now that I used the cross pedestal as a table for my helmet, which I am a bit ashamed of. Though the War Graves crew also used it for the Stihl leaf blower.
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