at Vimy Ridge

Another full day in France. We stopped at Vimy ridge just long enough to see the monument, read some of the names of the fallen, have lunch and then scoot off to Wellington Quarry. WQ is a network of underground tunnels, previously chalk mines which were connected by tunnels by the NZ soldiers, in preparation for the April 1916 offensives. 24,000 soldiers waited for a week down there, emerging within 300 yards of the german front line, much to their surprise.