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Low life

My Great War obsession

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

Bernafay Wood B&B, Somme, France

I came up on the TGV yesterday from the Midi to northern France and it went like the clappers. I fell asleep zipping through stony, sun-baked vineyards and olive groves and woke an hour later in dairy country obscured by rain. What I had hoped for was an empty carriage or at least a socially distanced one, but this particular Sunday train was packed to the rafters.

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