Chasing the Ghosts of the Somme…

It must be twenty years ago now. My parents were in their mid-seventies so I took them holiday to France for a week while they were still healthy and mobile enough to do so. I rented a gite in St Valery-sur-Somme, a picturesque fishing village at the mouth of the Somme estuary. The town’s chief claim to fame is a tower where Joan of Arc was briefly imprisoned en route to meet her fate at Rouen. My father and I ... Read more...