Armistice

Again we travelled to Belgium and The Somme for armistice. We started with two nights in Deal with 'the gang' ...friends from our nine day Dambusters trip seven years ago.

We then had three days in Belgium followed by three on The Somme.

It was a very full nine days and quite a rush back. Jules returned to Australia the day after we arrived back in Yorkshire.

Our journey home was disrupted by the storms as Dover closed it's docks. We spent an extra six and half hours on the ferry due to 50-60 mile an hour winds and 25-30 ft high waves. It was quite interesting. After a few hours free tea and coffee was allowed later followed by free food.

I have chosen a few photo's to put on here out of around nine hundred taken between us. We still have some to be developed that Vin took.

Because we have taken many similar and i have blogged then it was difficult to choose. Also there are so many amazing monuments that again it was difficult to choose when you consider we photographed many as well as museums etc., all mean something but i have chosen ones that mean the most to me. We also have numerous photo's of headstones all with a story to tell and quite a few VC's. So i have chosen a nurse buried with full military honours because she came from Agbrigg Road Wakefield, where a lot of my family have lived on my mums side.

I also chose one of many photo's taken by Jules of an Australian soldiers headstone. Jules spent an awful lot of time printing, laminating and placing photo's at numerous headstones. We have many to place for him that we didn't have time to place this time.


Thought for today:-

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

Ernest Hemingway. Novelist