Travelled: 61 kilometres from Verdun to Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France.
Visited: Battlefields of Verdun, American Cemetery at Romagne-sous-Montfaucon
Stayed: American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, free. No services. N49.33564, E05.09232
We roll out of Verdun on the D603. Its only a few kilometres until we turn onto the D913. The D913 travels in an arc across the north-east flank of Verdun, it roughly follows what was the old front line between the French and German forces during most of 1916.
Memorials and museums associated with the first and second world war are free in England as they are in Australia. They are even free in bloody Germany, the buggers who caused all this drama. Not the French, we all have to pay to honour their dead…
The museum which occupies two levels of the building devotes only a single panel to the Army of United States. Whilst the French had stopped the German advance on Verdun several months before. It was only with the arrival and involvement of the US Army did the allies brake the German lines and force them out of France on the eastern front.
Travelled : 35 miles to Sauveterre-de-Bearn in the French Pyrenees Visited : Saint-Etienne-de-Baigorry, Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and Sauveterre-de-Bearn. Stay : Sauveterre-de-Bearn, โฌ14.10 with all […]