We visited the Somme area of France a few years ago, staying with friends with a B&B in Flers, the more western Flers.
Their place is beautiful and is part of a hamlet that was reconstructed in 1947 after WWII. This region had been fought over for years with advances and retreats continuously, changing hands many times and had been completely leveled. In fact, the husband's, of the wife and husband owners of the B&B, father had served in the British Army during WWI and had fought through this area many times.
To be continued!
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