Even though travel restrictions are easing I am not yet minded to risk it so I still have no new stories to post so I continue to go through my picture archives and see where I was on this day at any time in the last few travelling years.
On 5th August 2017 I was in Northern France visiting a site of major historical significance…
Close by to where we were staying in Vic-Sur-Aisne was a particular place that I was keen to visit so one morning after breakfast I set off alone towards Compiègne and to the Clairière de l’Armistice, a historic site where the armistice of 1918 brought the First-World-War to an end and where just over twenty years later in 1940 Adolf Hitler dictated the terms of the surrender of France.
It is not a spectacular site, there is nothing grand about it, it is one of those places that you visit because of what happened there not for what you are going to see – two momentous moments in modern European history.
Have Bag, Will Travel 
Sometimes meaning is more than pretty or big know the place good to stop by for the history never to be repeated.
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A place I will never forget for sure.
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Not exactly happy memories, Andrew! Are you in Staithes this week? 🙂 🙂
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Not a happy place for sure but somewhere I will never forget.
Not Staithes this week, not until the end of the month.
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I wondered, because Margaret was there the other day. 🙂 🙂 Still keeping busy in the garden, and able to see the grandkids?
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Practically self sufficient from the vegetable patch!
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not all memories are of good things, but good to have had the experience and gain an understanding of what happened
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Exactly Beth, well said!
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