A little tour

We take the road, then track, that leads up to the top of Cote de Chaumont-devant-Damvillers - or, as we refer to it, Henry’s Hill.  I have previously written about Henry Gunther - the last American killed in the First World War.

The weather was lovely and the views magnificent and worth the slow drive up and down the track which surface has deteriorated since our last visit…many stones and deep tractor-wheel ruts take concentration and less-than-walking speed! 


Views from the top...

Towards Damvillers.

Towards Chaumont.

Typical of many fields in the area now that the harvesting is done.

Part of the Woevre Plain.

In memory of Henry Gunther.

These shots were taken coming down again!!

 

Safely down and past the Chateau of Chaumont.

 From Chaumont we drove through the beautiful countryside, up, over and down the ridge of the Meuse Heights and at Vacherauville we decided to check out the canal area but the small car park by the water was full so we went on to Belleville-sur-Meuse - the last place before Verdun.

Normally the car park between the Mairie and Post Office is full and very busy when we pass to and from Verdun on our supermarket shopping trips but on this sunny, summer Sunday there was just one car with a family of two adults and two children who were trying different parts of the canal bank to fish from.

The church faces the war memorial in the car park.

 The Mairie (Hotel de Ville - Town Hall) and the Salle des Fetes (village hall)

A view of a tree from the bench!

THE tree!

A pleasure boat goes by - we and they wave...of course!  We have been on this trip which was pleasant but a short ride which was disappointing - we had been hoping the boat would go upstream. But at least we've now seen this part of the river on water and land now!  And it's another tick on the list of places yet to be visited and an enjoyable afternoon.