Plans are developing

Well, we have now passed T-48h and check-in on-line through the SIA website was a breeze. So we now have our allocated seats for both legs of the flight to Manchester. We have been following the English weather at the UK Met Office website, but of course all that counts is what we get when we arrive there. In any case, I expect that the early autumn weather will be favorable...and we are not going for a beach party!!
Tks Kevin for your comment; we are firming up in favour of the option of spending the last week in Flanders Fields. Ferry to Calais, then stay somewhere in the area to visit localities between the Somme and Yser Rivers,from Amiens in France to Ypres in Belgium. Everywhere there are placenames burnt into the Australian psyche in the First World War. We will also experience the attractions of the area; I am keen to try Belgian beer & sausages, there is the glassworks at Arques and no doubt innumerable museums, galleries & cafes.
I would like to walk from Ypres to Menin if there is a suitable and safe track...that road was said to be the most dangerous place on earth during the third battle of Ypres in 1918.

PSD