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Saturday 9 June – part three: why isn’t that creperie opening?
Soon we were arriving in the town of Arras, where we’d be stopping for lunch. We were told we’d have just over an hour there. There was a market in full effect, so we set out wandering around, trying to find somewhere to eat…
We made our way over to the town hall…
… and headed inside to explore. These figures are used in a procession every year…
We headed outside again, with me looking for a creperie I’d spotted on TripAdvisor, but disappointingly, despite it saying it was open at midday, there was no sign of it opening a few minutes after 12:00pm. Oh well!
I got excited when I saw this sign…
However, everywhere that had the magic “m” word was also to be a disappointment. They advertised them, but there were barely any to be found.
We were impressed by the selection of goodies in one patisserie, although they sadly had nothing more substantial than cakes, so it wasn’t going to work out for our lunch.
We walked around and ended up back at where the bus had dropped us off. Ok, so now where to eat? I thought I’d seen a chocolate café nearby, so we headed that way, and sure enough I had. Even better, it had a good selection of both sweet and savoury items. We ended up getting baguettes for lunch and salad for dinner. Of course there were some sweet items in there too.
It was a lovely place…
I was so glad we’d finally found somewhere to eat and somewhere nice too. When we were done eating, we still had about 15 minutes before the coach was due to pick us up, so we went for a wander around the square where we’d been dropped off.
It was a really nice stop off, although I was concerned by the comments that we needed to use a restroom (thank goodness our lunch stop had one!) as there wouldn’t be a stop for some time.
Arras looks like a very old town with the style of buildings. It reminds me of Reims in Eastern France from my trip there in 2013. Glad lunch worked out for you after a bit of searching. Sorry about the macarons!
Thanks for the info on the Eurotunnel and Eurostar as I thought they were the same.
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Fantastic start. Wow, those folks who showed up at the car park in the hopes of getting on the coach were very lucky! Risky move. This must be important to them.
I had no idea they had coaches go on the Eurotunnel too. I'm sure that's quite a challenge parking that thing!
Arras looks like a cute little town! Glad you found some food. The desserts all looked so delicious.
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Saturday 9 June – part four: our first sombre stop
We headed out of Arras…
Soon we were back out in the countryside again…
Our first stop of the afternoon was at the Cambrai Memorial. This was, by far, the most stunning of all the cemeteries we visited. It was unveiled in 1930 and stands on a terrace at one end of the Louverval Military Cemetery. It features sculptures by Charles Sargeant Jagger, regarded as one of the greatest British sculptors and best known for his war memorials. He served in Gallipoli and on the Western Front.
The memorial holds the names of seven recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest award in the British honours system. It is awarded for gallantry in the presence of the enemy.
Like all of these memorials in northern France, you can’t quite take in the enormity of the number of names. In total, there are 7,038 British and five South African names on it. With all of them, their graves are unknown. Just think about that for a second. Truly unbelievable and so hard to fathom.
They came from all over the country as well…
I thought a really nice touch was that the wreath that we’d seen our guide take out of his car when we first saw was laid here.
We were able to wander around the cemetery during our time here as well. It contains the graves of 118 British, along with four Australians and two New Zealand soldiers and sailors What I noticed, both here and at every other stop we made, were the beautiful flowers everywhere.
I found this quite personal, as these were from a Cheshire regiment, where I grew up and one was for a Goulding. My best friend at school’s surname was Goulding…
At each cemetery we visited, there was a similar plaque to this…
I also found it very poignant that we saw a lot of poppies wherever we went:
It's beautifully done. And the flowers seem to make it that much more peaceful.
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I'm sure that's quite a challenge parking that thing!
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