Arras and the Somme battlefields

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01 October 2013

In the morning we went into the pretty Arras town centre which has been sympathetically reconstructed with two grand arcaded Flemish and Dutch style squares one of which contains an imposing Hotel de Ville.

In the afternoon we continued our exploration of the World War 1 sites and moved on to the area of the Battle of the Somme which contains many small cemeteries and several imposing memorials. We visited Beaumont-Hamel, Thiepval and Poziers.

We stayed at a lovely camper stop in the village of Conty just south of Amiens.

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