Holt's Battlefield Guide to The Somme

I ordered the pocket guide from Amazon, really just to check that the places I had selected were do-able and also to see what else was local for a "fag break" length stop.

The places I have chosen are part of the "Big Six". In fact five of them. 

The sixth is the Ulster Tower (above) just a short hop from the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing and the recently built visitor centre.

Holt's tours are half day, one day and longer suggested  routes. They are also based on Albert as the overnight point, and hence the starting point. Our start point is Calais....

I may re-jig the route to take into account the tank memorial on the Albert to Bapaume road at Pozières, and other of the aforementioned fag break stops.

Currently four of the Kent Centre are booked into the hotel and I have advertised the run to the SOC wider audience and to the R1150GS Facebook group.

It's a long way off and once it gets into the club magazines it may take off