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Somme Discovery Tours - Albert Amiens 2012 School Hotel Poppies Albert - Picardie France
Online invitation:
SOMME DISCOVERY TOUR 2012:
Tuesday 11th - Thursday December 13th 2012
“Come and see just what the Somme region, Albert and Poppy Country can offer to your clients!”
This special event is available free of charge to all travel agency staff who arrange tours to this area.
This year, thanks to our sponsors, we are able to offer the coach seats and the ferry crossing for free.


Poppy Country offers your clients the following possibilities:
- A convenient base from which to explore Amiens, Arras, Lille, the Ypres Salient and the Paris region
- Remembrance TourS of the main sites of the 1916 Battle of the Somme
- Heritage sites including the magnificent cathedral of Amiens
- Peaceful and unspoilt landscapes including the extensive nature reserves around the Somme estuary
- A host of activities to enjoy with family, friends and fellow travellers such as river tourism on comfortable and easily handled barges, canoeing, horse-riding, hiking and cycling along our three rivers (bikes rental available), discovery of local traditional food (cooking workshops available), bowling, cinemas, private museums related to the First World War and much more…
Poppy Country also hosts the following events:
- The International Animal Film Festival in Albert (March)
- The commemorations marking 1 July 1916 taking place all over the Poppy Country (June-July)
- Pozières son et lumière (July)
- The Poppy Country marathon (September)
- The famous Christmas market in Amiens (December)

Programme of the
Somme Discovery Tour 2012:

Tuesday December 11th:
08:30 Pick up at Stansted Airport by Galloway coach
09:45 Pick up at Ebbsfleet International
11:00 Pick up at Dover Terminal
11:05 Check in Dover
12:05 Depart Dover via P&O Ferries
14:35 Arrive in Calais
14:50 Depart Calais
17:30 Arrive in Albert
18:30 Welcoming ceremony at the Town Hall in Albert
19:00 Speech by Stéphane Demilly MP, Mayor of Albert and President of Poppy Country
19:30 Reception
20:30 Evening meal at Corner's Pub
Wednesday December 12th:
07:00 Breakfast at the Hotels
09:00 Visit Somme Battlefield sites of the Great War
11:00 Visit of Musée Somme 1916 in Albert
13:00 Lunch at the Musée Somme 1916 Museum
13:45 Cup of coffee at Ibis Hotel Albert
14:00 Depart for Amiens
15:00 Visit of the Amiens Christmas Market www.marchedenoel.fr
17:45 Guided visit to the Amiens Cathedral
18:30 Vinc chaud at Amiens tourist board (next to the Amiens Cathedral)
19:00 Illumination of Amiens Cathedral
20:00 Return to Albert
21:00 Special dinner evening in School Hotel - Poppies Albert


Thursday December 13th:
08:00 Breakfast at the Hotels.
09:30 Depart for the town of Péronne
10:00 Visit of the Historial Museum of Péronne
11:30 Presentations
12:00 Lunch at Historial Museum
14:00 Departure of Galloway Coaches to Calais
16:15 Checkin at Calais
17:15 Depart Calais via P&O
17:45 Arrive Dover
18:15 Arrive Dover Terminal
19:30 Arrive Ebbsfleet International
20:45 Arrive Stansted Airport


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Somme Discovery Tours - Albert Amiens 2012 School Hotel Poppies Albert - Picardie France