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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…
Posted in Beaches, Cathedrals, Europe, France, Germany, History, Natural Environment, Postcards, Travel, United Kingdom, World Heritage
Tagged Armistice Day, Compiègne, First World War, Poppies, World War Two
“If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;” Rupert Brooke – ‘The Soldier’
Posted in Beaches, Europe, France, Germany, History, Literature, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Armistice Day, boulogne, calais, Commonwealth War Graves, Culture, Etaples, First World War, France, Hardelot, Le Touquet, Life, Remembrance Sunday
Have Bag, Will Travel 