BattlefieldsWalking The Somme
Your itinerary ●
Day 1 | Travel from your FREE local joining point and on to your hotel in Amiens. | ●
Day 2 | Walk 1:
We begin in Auchonvillers to see the cemetery and sight of the dressing
station, then follow the route taken by poet, Edmund Blunden up on the
Hawthorn Ridge. We examine the fighting for Beuamont Hamel on 1st July
1916 and end at Newfoundland Park, with its preserved trenches.
Walk 2: We start at
Blighty Valley Cemetery and walk through Authuille Wood to the front
lines, seeing the sights of the Leipzig Salient we then see Thiepval
Memorial and visit the new Visitors Centre. B | ●
Day 3 | Walk 3:
We visit Mametz Wood, seeing Dantzig Alley Cemetery and the Memorial to
the 38th (Welsh) Division. We then walk to the Flat Iron Copse Cemetery
and end at Bazentin-le-petit.
Walk 4: From
Bazentin to High Wood, via Crucifix Corner to the London Cemetery on the
edge of the wood. We see the various unit memorials, then follow the
infamous Wood Lane down to Longueval. B | ●
Day 4 |
Morning at leisure or join an optional excursion to the Tommy Bar at
Pozieres, virtually a museum, with a large system of trenches in the
garden. We study the role of the Australians seeing the near-by memorial
and Gibraltar Bunker site.
Walk 5:
We
focus on the battlefield between Mouquet Farm and Courcelette. We start
at the Farm and then walk to Courcelette British Cemetery, where we look
at Canadian attack of Courcelette. We then visit the Sunken Lane and the
sight of a former German Cemetery, seeing a unique German Memorial on
the Somme. B | ●
Day 5 | Return to U.K. B |
Included Meals - B=Breakfast
All walks are approx. 6
Km
Prices Per Person
The
prices shown are for 2006 - Please contact us for 2007 details |
16 April 2006 | £289 | |
08 May | £289 | |
12 June | £299 | |
10 July | £299 | |
21 August | £299 | |
11 September | £299 |
Four nights with continental breakfast at the 3-star Hotel Novotel Amiens
Est located on the outskirts of the historic city of Amiens. Your hotel has
a bar and restaurant. Please note that the hotel has two floors and does not
have a lift. All bedrooms have air conditioning T.V., radio and hairdryer.
Prices are per person and are based on 2 sharing a twin room. Single room supplement £120. Entrance fees to places of interest. at own expense unless otherwise stated.
We act as agents for Leger Holidays for the above tour - ABTA Number V3582 Return to Shenfield Travel's main Battlefields page
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