Woke to SUNSHINE !! what a !lovely change.
Michele and Peter arrived as planned, nice and early, great to see them here.
A leisurely breakfast then off to explore.
Verdun has been here for thousands of years, has had an exciting history. Gauls and Romans fought over it, and in the last few hundred years the French and German.
Can you remember that I mentioned Vauban? well he has been busy here too building fortifications. Fortifications so massive that by the beginning of WW1 Toul and Verdun the most heavily fortified towns in France. A huge battle fought around Verdun from Feb 1916 to Aug 1917.
Peter and Michele out side the underground Citadelle
Lunch time on deck of Linquenda
Porte Chausses 16thcentuary
Linquenda in Verdun port
Michele and Peter arrived as planned, nice and early, great to see them here.
A leisurely breakfast then off to explore.
Verdun has been here for thousands of years, has had an exciting history. Gauls and Romans fought over it, and in the last few hundred years the French and German.
Can you remember that I mentioned Vauban? well he has been busy here too building fortifications. Fortifications so massive that by the beginning of WW1 Toul and Verdun the most heavily fortified towns in France. A huge battle fought around Verdun from Feb 1916 to Aug 1917.
Peter and Michele out side the underground Citadelle
Lunch time on deck of Linquenda
Porte Chausses 16thcentuary
Linquenda in Verdun port
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