Cycling from Greece to England Vlog Day 69 – La Fere to Cambrai

On day 69 of the bicycle tour from Greece to England, I cycled between La Fere and Cambrai in France. The area I cycled through had many war memorials, and I stopped off at a couple along the way. I hope you like the vlog! Please check out my channel to see more vlogs taken from this bicycle tour.

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hello everyone so it didn’t rain for once overnight which is great news and the weather forecast for the next four days is good weather apparently but watch this space so now all of my kits is dry which is great just waiting for the tent to dry out I’m going to pack that on the bike and hit the road going to head to a place called cambray it’s about 70 kilometers away if i get there reasonably quick i might decide to carry on to a place called out of us still on schedule for catching the ferry for monday so far and that’s all i’ve got to say i’ll give some clips on the road and here we go so i just thought i would take a break spent the first hour cycling up a canal path and now I’ve just feed off onto the road again and what better place to take a break than in a sin garden I think I think the Kibo sets off the Zen garden perfectly I think it’s a perfect combination though I can’t leave it there luv lovely surroundings so it’s gonna have a quick break and then continue to San Quentin and then can break just stopping off at another war memorial on my way to cambray I’ve shown some in the past and if you’ve seen war memorials in France you’re probably used to them being quite large and you see these vast spaces of just filled up with like lines of neatly kept gravestones there are also smaller ones in France as well and in a way they’re a little bit more poignant I think because not everyone died in one place and when you see the smaller ones you realize that whole regiments or villages were perhaps wiped out at the same time and you get neighbors laying next to each other anyway I’m going to quickly walk you around here the royal welsh fusiliers and the Welsh regiment just literally 30 seconds down the road there’s another memorial called the bois symmetry again this is has some the Welsh regiment welsh fusiliers just having a look they’re all welsh fusiliers now welsh richmond again these bear to the separate plot now these maintains by the Commonwealth War Memorial society i will confirm that later on in this very clip by the waves are probably got the night so as you’ll notice the grass is well kept so i’m going to just turn the camera around and show you around so everything is well kept and well maintained and this is done by the Commonwealth War Memorial society again a will confirm that name for you a look from now we’ve moved from Wales Durham Lester share some Berland Joyce if you think this has taken a rather gloomy turn but this part of France is obviously known for the war cemeteries and war memorials because of the Great War and well I can’t not show you can I so well I think it’s important to show these things so that maybe we’re not all stupid enough to go and repeat our mistakes from the past we wouldn’t do that would we so let’s turn around then and because there’s a little plaque on the wall here so to summarize nearly 750,000 Commonwealth soldiers sailors and airmen died on the Western Front 200,000 in Belgium and 500,000 in France which is just an insane amount of people crazy in amounts crazy amounts these places always seem very peaceful so imagine if you’re a local you just drive by and although maybe people come to visit if you’re a local maybe not I think if you’re a tourist in the area some people do actually come on tour in the area to visit the war sandwiches and war memorials to find fallen relatives I think everyone should stop at least one and there is also let me just show you there is also the cemetery register which is a visitor’s book and I dare say that so the charity that I mentioned who keeps them it’s called a Commonwealth War Graves Commission get it right in the end and there we have some people leaving some comments recently i think i’ll probably leave one of my own as well so once I’ve left a comment I will hit the road again cheers for now so that’s the end of another day’s ride and if the surroundings look familiar it’s because I’m in another f1 hotel room which are basically all the same it’s there just set out to a plan the reason being is that several reasons I need to plan my roots back to the UK and also i need to do some work i had a bunch of work come up so i just need to take some time out to to sit down and get it done so that’s it for now and i will catch you tomorrow subscribe to the channel thumbs up and visit the blog at deja trouble pages com see you later guys cheers for now