Walking the Somme

Walking the Somme - a leisurely walking tour covering the major battles of the Somme

The haunting Somme Battlefields offer perhaps the best walking ground on The Western Front.

Your itinerary
Day 1 Local departure by coach then onwards to Amiens for a four-night stay.
Day 2 Forgotten Truce, Gommecourt and The Pals at Serre. 
Walk 1: We begin at Hannescamps, studying the forgotten truce of 1915. Then by the front lines to Foncquevillers seeing the area from the ‘Little Z’ to Gommecourt Wood.
Walk 2: From Hébuterne to Touvent Farm  to see where Roland Leighton, fiancé of the author Vera Brittain was killed in 1915. On to the Serre battlefield seeing preserved trenches, Sheffield Memorial Park and end at the spot where the poet Wilfred Owen was in a captured German dugout in the ‘Heidenkopf’ in 1917. B
Day 3 Mine Craters, the Green Howards & War Poets.
Walk 3: We begin at the huge crater at Lochnagar. Then by Sausage Valley to the ground above Contalmaison where we study the attack into the village by the Green Howards. At Bell’s Redoubt we learn about Donald Simpson Bell, the only professional footballer to be awarded the VC, then to The Quadrangle, where Siegfried Sassoon fought, ending at Mametz village.
Walk 4: Walk the ground above Mametz where war poets Graves and Sassoon served. We see the Citadel and Point 110, and look at Sassoon’s Military Cross action. We then follow the story of the Devonshires, and the heroic actions of their poet William Hodgson, and end with the German perspective on the battle on the edge of Mametz village B
Day 4 Guards Division.
Walk 5: From Ginchy across the ground taken by the Guards in September 1916. In the afternoon join our optional tour which visits the Wellington Tunnel System at Arras. B
Day 5 To Calais, and return home. B
Included Meals: B=Breakfast

Your hotel
You’ll stay for four nights at the 2-star Express by Holiday Inn Amiens. The hotel is centrally located and offers a bar, breakfast room and  lift. There are a variety of bars and restaurants within walking distance.  All bedrooms have T.V., telephone and tea/coffee making facilities. 

5 days from only £349

What’s Included?
• Specialist Battlefields Guide
• 5 Battlefield walks - Each walk is approximately 3-4 miles
• 4 nights' accommodation wtih continental breakfast 
• Travel by executive coach
• FREE local joining points
Note: Entrance fees to museums & places of interest are at extra cost.

Prices are per person, based on two sharing.
Extras • Optional excursions

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