Toured around the sites of various battles on the Somme. First, looked at the 1916 Underground Museum at Albert. The golden statue of Virgin and Child atop the church there, leaning outwards, supposedly suggested , when it was destroyed, who would win the war. When it was destroyed, neither side were in a position to win.

Lochnager next - scene on 1/7/1916 of one of many tunnelling episodes in WW1 . Then to the Australian 1st Division Memorial at Pozieres.

Next to the Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery near Souchez. The circle is completed! 34,000 km ago, on 9th March, our second day of travel, we were here!

Countryside changing as more leaves turn and fall, and it is beginning to look like winter will be soon. Heaps of beets in the fields.

On to the Museum of the Battle of Fromelles and the cemetery there. 250 Aussies, buried in a mass grave behind German lines, at Pheasant Wood, were reburied there in recent years, and the cemetery dedicated in 2011.

Crossed the border into Belgium!! Camped near Ypres, in the pouring rain.