Category: "Amiens - Normandie"
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Day One of Driving on the wrong side!
So, is this the pivotal day of the trip! At the time it certainly felt like it!
Maison de Jules Verne
Jules Verne was a great thinker, planner and civic contributer!
A Day in the Somme Valley
Today we spent the day travelling in a small tour group through some the main sites that Australian , alongside French, British, New Foundlanders, South Africans, Canadians and Americans; fought in the First World War, the Première Guerre de Mondial.
Reminders of home
We are waiting for a tour to Villers-Bretonneux, on Howey time, so good opportunity for a morning coffee. We are often reminded of home.
Des Hortillonages
A quiet morning Amiens, a coffee after walking from our base into town then off to find "Des Hortillonages" on the banks of the riever Somme. These 'water gardens' have been here since the middle ages - basically market farming land reclaimed small piece by small piece from the river 'flood plain'. The farmers still take their produce to the maket on the river bank at the feet of the cathedral in Amiens every Saturday. The ultimate farmers market.
It was a lovely way to spend the afternoon floating along in a flat bottom boat/barge- ourselves and 10 other people and our guide (who also steered the boat). The water is so clear. There is so much of it! Our guide was telling us all about what we were travelling through - unfortunately our French meant we may have understood 1/10 words but it was fun. The boat itself has not changed much in design from the middle ages - with one exception - our boat captain had the aid of a small and very quiet electric engine, which was plugged in to recharged on our return to the dock. In the past he may have had to pole us around!