when I spoke to some of my colleagues about the walk we first thought maybe 10 ladies might put themselves forward to raise a bit of money for the charity.I spoke to our Director of Fundraising here in the South West Colonel Alan Gorcyzska and he thought it a splendid idea. I decided a trip over to France for a quick recce was in order so we set out to have a look at it all. I had just got a brand new car the week before and it needed testing on a nice long run. We drove to Dover from Cornwall about 400 and odd miles crossed by Sea France and drove down to Mailly maillet on the Somme. I had booked us into a B&B via the internet and what a fab place it was Christine the owner spoke wonderful English and was just so accommodating to us. We spent 3 days just driving around plotting the walk and seeing old contacts of mine. The weather was great and we spent a fair bit of time wandering around the cemeteries in the sun making sure that the tommies lying there for 90 years knew that we were there and that we were bringing more to see them in the Autumn. I told Jeannette this is going to be a bugger to plan and it will either work or it wont. Typical Jan said "whatever"
Mmm I though "well in for a penny in for thousands of pounds not just one" yes lets do it.
Well we had some good long talks about this walk and how this would work and how that wouldn't work, and which routes were best and was there any changes, that is why the recce was done and what lovely weather we had too. I meet some of Sue's old friends and I made new ones too, plus I have now got an idea of the sort of training I need to do to get up the big hill.
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