Tuesday 6th May 2025

This morning we left Watten - seen here - and after a supermarket shop, tried to visit the nearby hilltop town of Cassel. However when we got to the main square of the town all the parking places were full and we had to give up! The Nursery Rhyme about the Grand Old Duke of York marching his 10,000 men up and down a hill has sometimes been attributed to a Duke of York doing just that at Cassel during wars with the French in the 18th Century!

We moved on in a south easterly direction and parked for the day at the Aire in Richebourg. 

The Aire is in a pleasant rural location but was the scene of a terrible WW1 battle during which the town was mainly destroyed and the surviving people left homeless and destitute.

We decided to go for a walk.

We found the Peace Gardens.

This memorial is made of Portuguese marble commemorating Portuguese soldiers who died in the battle here.

This memorial has no interpretive sign yet.

On the way back to our van we saw this butterfly. Common Blue? Adonis Blue? 

Unlike most of France, Flanders has a beer drinking culture and Pelforth, brewed locally is apparently the tipple of choice. I quite like it.

Today we travelled 43 miles (69 kilometres). We are at: N50.5812 E2.7459

Richebourg       Street View