Destinations

Somme | Christopher Somerville | France, Picardy, Somme

Shots were ringing out from the Bois D’Engremont, echoing across a shallow valley of cornfields now cut to stubble. “Local gun club,” murmured Colonel David Church as he led us up the track towards the wood. Wry smiles flickered here and there among the party of walkers. The sound of gunfire here in the rolling landscape of northeast France, with the River Some flowing its sluggish course five miles to the south, held an irony we could well appreciate.

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