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Friday, Jul 21, 2006

Some Battlefields

David Murray
2007-03-04 10:07:22

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Realising that I was quickly digging a trench, which actually had started out as a little rut, it meant I had to get away, away from the way of life that I was now entrenched in. We had moved into a flat, and were quickly settling down, and then I spied a trip on the BT intranet. It was a cheap fair to either France or Belgium. When I mentioned this to my mate Paul, he said fuck that, we can do it cheaper. We will take my car, go on the train and spend the weekend looking at battlefields in the Somme and in the Flanders area. He quoted it all up, and the plan was now set in stone. Also, working at BT was a guy called Mini Me, who is a legend on WW1 sites, so after a little talk, we new what we were getting ourselves into

Friday, we left work. Lucy had met us, and we took off for some beers with his girlfriend Julie. We hadn't seen her since Bangkok, and she sure does like a drink or twelve !!! So we had food and twelve drinks, and then died for the night.

Fuck it, we had to get up fucking early, and my head wasn't working. A quick dose of twelve panadols, well, you do need one for each drink, and then we were on our way to Le Shuttle. And just to make sure that the day started in the grandest way, we were pulled for a drugs search in the UK, and then our train was cancelled. Oh well, it gave me time for the twelve panadols to work there way inside me.

So we waited and waited and waited some more, until it was our time to get on the train.

35 minutes later, we rolled off in France, and I did my best impression of being a navigator. Normally, Lucy does this, because many years ago, Lucy was driving in Germany, and we had to get to Antwerp. We kind of ended up in Amsterdam, so I have been the dedicated driver ever since !!! In Arras, I managed to get us lost, four u-turns later, we had found our way out and we were on our way. AGAIN

As we drove into the Somme area, we came across a little ...