Motorbike Diaries -Day  54  ( Saturday 11th  )

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Arras – Vimy Ridge – Many cemeteries
Left Verdun relatively early having had another breakfast for champions in the hotel ( bread and jam !)
The French have a strange idea of what constitutes a full breakfast.?
Quite an easy 180  mile run up to Arras –  I had one little incident where I stalled the bike going through one of the countless toll gates on the motorway. Took me quite a few minutes to get the bike restarted- needless to say the queue behind me got quite impatient and started honking their horns etc –   One Golden Rule as a Biker- never ever worry what the people behind you are doing- never let it make you feel anxious –
if they have a problem, it’s their issue not yours 😊
Booked into a Formula1 Hotel – and spent all afternoon and evening exploring some of the Somme battle sites
This area is actually quite overwhelming, there are so many battle sites, monuments, cemeteries, fortifications, trench systems and so on.
I spent quite a lot of time exploring Vimy Ridge- which is of great significance to the Canadians- over four days they lost thousands of men trying to take the ridge- it was the biggest loss of Canadian soldiers in any one engagement in world history.
So it resonates strongly with them.
Again it was interesting I had a lot of the place to myself, very few visitors.
I visited quite a few cemeteries and of course went to the large international monument.
It’s quite incredible they have carved the names of 580,000 soldiers who died  (  just in that area ) during the First World War
they are all done in alphabetical order giving no regard to rank position or nationality.
So German, French, British, Canadian and so on all altogether-  it’s quite astounding, and very appropriate
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