The Canadian War Memorial

Our airè in Arras was great, I managed to have a shower with quite warm water and although I didn’t sleep great that was more down to me rather than any noise.
At 10am we left Arras and drove 6 miles north staying on the front line of world war 1 and heading for Vimy. Our first destination was the Canadian war memorial and preserved trenches.
We hit the trenches first and they were amazing.The preserved ones were only a few hundred meters long but the unpreserved ones went on for miles and miles with crater holes from mortars littering the battlefield. Nothing we had read or watched can bring the reality of home, it really is an unbelievable sight.
From the trenches we walked the few hundred meters down the memorial road to the Canadian memorial sight. It is an amazing sight of towers with angels on the top, soldiers on the bottom and engraved with 64,000 names. It is a beautiful sight and at night it’s lit up and at sunset we drove back to it to see it lit up.Read more