Abbeville.
A cooler day. Threatening rain. I just put on my midlayer (I have no other layer) and wonder about rain and no protection. Too many cars in Abbeville. Built post war, when cars were rarer than they are now. Only a fraction of its pre-war charms still exist. Brutal Germans - they definitely went so arrogant in the 1930s that they really thought that they were destroying for a 1000 years of history in the making? By destroying unnecessarily. I understand the reprisals meated out to them once the RAF, USAAF and USSR airforce could deliver steel over their cities. Barbarity on every level? Never again in Europe perhaps? *** I bad night's sleep. Not drunk or ate badly. Just so humid in the room. Had the window open until some train track noise in the early dawn. Closing a window on a day like this... Dark clouds, oppressive, muggy. But here I am again. Another day walking. A day off yesterday and it's enough for Abbeville. In the afternoon it poured down, but it didn...