Day 27 – Sun 06 Jul 14, Saint-Quentin to Amiens
Forecast: 8-20 deg C, mostly cloudy with some showers; Listed distance: 75km; Actual distance: 78km; Cumulative distance: 1070km; Av speed: 18.3 km/h; St-Q: 14 deg C; Amiens: 17 deg C; Wind: WNW, 25 km/h; Start time: 8:25am; Stop time: 3:12pm; Ride time: 4h11m After a simple but filling breakfast, we left a tad later than usual as breakfast only started at 7:30am because it was Sunday. As we left the city, the weather seemed to be closing in, but we think the 18-25 km/h side-on wind (sometimes a little more headwind and sometimes a little bit from behind) managed to push the rain clouds on before they could deposit their load onto us. We sighted our first war cemetery about 20km out of St-Q at Villers-Carbonnel. It was a French cemetery and considering the fact that there are 2,000 purely Military and another 1,000 civilian cemeteries where war causalities were buried there are plenty of opportunities for us to pay our respect. Our first stop was at a Commonweal...