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. 
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