Favorite thing: Seeing the trenches the very first is nothing like the textbooks or even the pictures online. You just have to see how very big they are!
Fondest memory: The experience and the rich history and knowledge will always stay with you (except the boring war details the guide was talking about).
Plus its my first trip with my friends out of the country. :)
Updated Jul 23, 2009
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Seeing the trenches the very first is nothing like the textbooks or even the pictures online. You just have to see how very big they are! The experience and...
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Who could've have predicted that such Great War, as it was called would be fought at one of the places was here at the Somme, France (one of the bloodiest WW1 battlefields). The most famous word, "no...
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I visited The Sommes as part of a college trip around France and Belgium in April 2001. It was for both History and English Literature, as we were learning about WW1 for both, war literature for the...
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France, Departemente 80: Somme, Picardy.

Drove through the Somme one June evening in 1994 from Dieppe, heading for Calais and on to Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.
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