Day 3

Sadly setting off from the lovely Chateau at Vandencourt after breakfast with the hosts we headed south through Ham where Hal passess through, they are mid retreat at this point so are only stopping for 2 hours for rests before moving on.

Finally they stop for a night in Genvry just north west of Noyon where they billet over night in a small farm and see two aeroplanes having a dog fight with pistols... "ours much faster, circling round him and could just hear and see pistol shots."

We had a lovely bike ride down to Genry where the land is very flat and you could imagine the British being able to see the Germans behind them. Much better weather today bar a head wind that made even down hills hard work.

In Genry we had a picnic and then headed on to Noyon where you could see shrapnel damage on the cathedral still surviving from WW1.

Stayed the night in a nice B&B just south of Nyon, although they did have a stuffed foal in their front room...