Sunday, June 9, 2013

Day five-- Noyon to Perrone

Distance: 35 miles
Hills: rolling hills, none too difficult
Weather: HOT. We were sunburned despite wearing SPF 30 sunscreen

Nothing fancy today. Rode the long ride through farms and along the Canal du Nord, a shipping waterway in Northern France. Visited a sugar beet factory (boring), a German WWI cemetery and a French WWI cemetery. We are approaching the Somme River, which was one of the very fiercely contested battle areas in WWI.  In a few days we will be in Flanders, where soldiers fought in trenches during the First World War. No pics today. 

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