More planning required!

Well the end of the trip is in Le Cateau en Cembresis largely because I wanted to visit the Matisse Museum that has one of the largest collections of Mattisse and a good number of Herbin pictures. I last came in the 80's and have long wanted to return. Unfortunately the museum has been closed for 18 months and is due to reopen in three weeks!

Oh well on the plus side we'll have to come back, and we went into the tourist office and met a wonderful old gentleman who took us to his house and showed us his own collections of art. He gave us some mattise posters and other bits as he used to be the chairman of the friends of the museum.

Once we escaped we went to look at some sites related to Wilfred Owen and the ww1 battles in the area. Czytaj więcej