Thursday 6 June 2019

THURSDAY 6TH JUNE - LAST DAY IN THE AMIENS AREA




Today was our final day in the Amiens area. Tomorrow we head for Dunkirk.

 
We only visited the one military memorial this morning, the Beaufort Hamel Newfoundland Memorial. It is a memorial to soldiers from Newfoundland, now part of Canada. Part of the battlefield has been preserved substantially as it was after the battle, complete with remnants of the trench system. The memorial is staffed by Canadian students who act as guides. They spend four months on the site.


From there we went to Cite Souterraine at Naours. An underground city that started out as a chalk quarry in the third century but has been substantially expanded so that it became a hiding place for the local townspeople in times of strife.

 
It has numerous rooms but one of those featured in the self guided underground tour is the chapel. At one stage in its development, the local parish priest played a prominent role.

 
This afternoon, we went for a walk in the canal district of Amiens - not impressive compared with the canal systems we have seen in recent weeks but we had to check it out..

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