After a wonderful night’s sleep, day two dawned. I woke up again during the night to use the restroom, and because the hotel room window was open, I could see the village lights across the bay. A beautiful view.

We got ready, and around 8:30 a.m., we got in the car to look for a bakery. We had the option of adding breakfast for 18 euros per person per day, but nothing beats fresh rolls from a French bakery. After buying a croissant, two chocolate biscuits, and a small baguette, we headed to the Samara open-air museum, about an hour’s drive from the hotel. I quickly realized it would be better to take a sweater with me.

Upon arrival, it was already incredibly crowded with a school group of children, and the museum shop wasn’t very well received. We drove on to the ruins of Picquigny Castle, and I noticed that there were bullet holes in the walls here and there: probably from the First World War. Despite the sun, the wind was still chilly, and I decided that if we came across a Decathlon store, I’d buy a sweater. We continued our way to Amiens to visit the cathedral, which actually turned out to be a basilica. A truly beautiful building built sometime around 1200. It was getting close to lunchtime, so we looked for a restaurant to eat something.

After lunch, we got back into the car. I still had no sweater, and slowly drove back in the direction of the park and a Sauna. It was there that we learned is that it was far too crowded. But, you see, there’s still a lot more to see and do. On the way back, in the direction of the hotel, we took a look in the ruins of the castle of Pont Remy and at the crashsite of a B17, which is on the 22nd of June, 1944 was crash-landed in the nearby area. Nearly the whole of the crew are dead except for 1, which ended up as a POW (prisoner of war). Back on the road we drove on to find a brocanterie, but it was not to be found. Then it went back to the hotel to finally do a pull up, and we drove out to the place of Cayeux-sur-mer, where we had some cider to drink.

I have my appetite back, and we’re in the village, next to the hotel and go to dinner. After dinner, we went back to the hotel, and I thought it would be a good idea to do a review, to shoot a video for my youtube channel about my First World War uniform that I had brought with me. So I’m at various locations to take a video on what happened to the place since 1916, during the battle of the Somme but I found out that I left my shoes and beenwindsels home. Bummer. Another beer in the hotel room and then off to bed early for a day dedicated to First World War locations!