04/05/2015 An emotional day following the Battle of th Somme.

Maximum temperature at Albert 20C, minimum 15 C. Dry.

The Thiepval Memorial, the largest war memorial in the world, commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields. 

We discovered one family member.

Looking across the Somme fields.

The Australian War Memorial.

The Canadian War Memorial.

Ulster's War Memorial.

And close to my heart, and to me the most peaceful,  South Africa's war memorial.

03/05/2015 Day one, drive to Albert and visit to the WW1 museum.

Maximum temerature in Albert France 17C, minimum 9C.  20 mm measured at home this morning and still raining.  Rain all the way to Paris, a short break, then more. It stopped just as we reached Albert!

And still it rains.....

Look hard in the centre - do you see the Eiffel Tower?

Nearing Albert.

Notre Dame de Brebieres in Albert.

Wall near the museum.

At the entrance of Musee Somme 1916