Left Verdun and headed south down the “Sacred Way” or Voie Sacrée. This road goes all the way to Bar Le Duc and was the lifeline during the Verdun campaign that saw tail to nose lorries ferrying troops and supplies to the front. Somehow it brought to mind “A Farewell To Arms” which I saw as a film as a boy about the Italian front in WW1….I must get Hemingway’s book to revisit it. On the road I passed a French soldier cemetery that was in such poor condition compared to the British and Commonwealth graves in the north that I was shocked. The road started to rise and fall and I envisaged a journey south of continually climbing and all too briefly descending before finding those lower gears again. Eventually neared Lac en Der and encountered horrific artics taking a short cut from Troyes. Got bounced at the first camp site but got directed to another at Braucourt that wanted nearly 26 € which was nearly three times the rate…..hey ho!…too weary to argue the toss.
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| French Soldier Cemetery |
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| A road side graphic of a picture |
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