We traveled from Paris yesterday through the Somme and spent the night along the fault line of the Great War Western Front. Today we will visit Ypres. The landscape is peppered with war graves from WW1 and WW2 (the retreat to Dunkerque) and while walking along the lines of graves yesterday I read "unknown soldier of the Great War" inscribed on the tomestone repeatedly. All very sad.
There has been a juncture in our travels as I had to return to the UK for a check up with my knee in London in early June. There was an odd sense of not belonging; either traveling or back in the UK. No man's land. But, slowly we find our feet again and we have worked our way from across the Pyrenees to Bordeaux and St Emilion, the coast of Brittany, Normandy and the D Day landing beaches, Paris and the Rodin Museum to here.
Friday, 2 July 2010
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