Le Blockhaus d’Eperlecques
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Early October and we decided to head back to France to spend a few weeks in the Alps, and so once again we thought we’d try to arrange for an engineer to come out to the apartment and install a new smart meter (only about three years after the original request to do so). Luckily we had the bright idea of enlisting the help of Jenny and Adrian to phone the electricity company, after which we were optimistic that finally we had arranged for this to happen. Fingers crossed.
Leaving Worcester we drove to Southampton and stopped at Amy’s for a couple of nights, taking the opportunity to incorporate a visit to Brighton with Nicki to catch up with Robert Dunkley, my old school friend.
Once across the channel we began our journey to our first overnight stop in Biache-Saint-Vaast, on the way visiting Eperlecques forest, a WW2 site for the production of the V rocket.
Despite some research, when we arrived it was so quiet on arrival that I thought we had messed up and it was closed. Happily it was open and we were able to roam around easily, with no trouble pressing all the buttons to get the GB audio.
The history of the place was fascinating, and it seemed amazing that most of it was built in just six months (ie from its start till the British dropped 360 one-ton bombs on it!) Even then the production center took a six-ton bomb to penetrate the roof of the blockhaus.
Having spent a couple of hours exploring the ground, it was time to move on and we headed off for a brief drive to our accomodation for the night.
The next morning saw us heading off again, this time to Mailley-le-ville to spend some time on Shensi before continuing on to La Foux.
