Well we are not going to France in the Van for the first trip this year but we may still get there in September. I really hope that we do get there as it means so much to me to be there 100 years after my Granddad.
We are still going this week but we are taking the car and staying in Mobile Homes. Also we will be further down away from where my Granddad was and the ferry trip will mean missing out that area as well.
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Thursday, 7 January 2016
Looking forward to a trip 2016
I am really hoping that we are going to make it to France in the van this year. We are already looking at places to visit around June, probably just up north of the country though and maybe pop into Belgium (for beer).
One reason that I really want to visit in 2016, is that it is exactly 100 years since my Grandad fought there and I have his diary for that time. I never met him, he died in the shipyards some time in the 1920's when my Dad was a baby and I didn't come along until the 1950's. So I would like to go and be somewhere that he was, exactly the same place, on exactly the same day, although 100 years on from him.
I have been intending to do this for as long as I have had the van, but thought that after my stroke that I would never make it. Hopefully it will all come together but we will have to wait and see, for now we are only looking.
One reason that I really want to visit in 2016, is that it is exactly 100 years since my Grandad fought there and I have his diary for that time. I never met him, he died in the shipyards some time in the 1920's when my Dad was a baby and I didn't come along until the 1950's. So I would like to go and be somewhere that he was, exactly the same place, on exactly the same day, although 100 years on from him.
I have been intending to do this for as long as I have had the van, but thought that after my stroke that I would never make it. Hopefully it will all come together but we will have to wait and see, for now we are only looking.
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