• Stage 14: Bapaume to Péronne

    May 3, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 50 °F

    My knee is much better and I hope to be back on the road tomorrow. Yay!

    Note my accommodations: how efficient to put the shower in the kitchen. 🙂🙂🙂 It looks like I have the place to myself.

    Péronne is probably the most frequently destroyed city in Europe. Several times in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and obliterated in WWI and WWII. Just about everything is less than 100 years old.

    At the Mairie a wonderful guide showed me the collection of local artifacts, most of them 2-3,000 years old.

    The Historial is a museum devoted to WWI.
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