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Added 03/11/2006 Péronnes Tour 2006.

The WW I Belgian Gang - Philippe Spriesterbach, Fred Liefferinckx and myself - started from La Louvière, Belgium, at 10:00 am. We arrived in Péronnes at 11:30 and met our friends Philippe Jourdan, the big boss of Hi-Tech, his son Julien, his daughter Julie, Dominique Gennard and our Canadian friend Tom "Doc" Morgan in a little pub in front of the
Historial of Péronnes, where we drink a French café that was welcome after the long road.

Scoop: you can see her the pieces of the future 1/32 Albatros D V from Hi-Tech.
Look carefully at them: there are not the definitive ones; the definitive version will be better...

Fred Liefferinckx and Philippe Jourdan are speaking about the not yet released Hi-Tech D.V.
 

In the meantime, Philippe Spriesterbach is showing to Doc Morgan his 1/72 Schneider (full scratch...)

The Historial of Péronnes.

All the gang (except me, but I was taking the photo...): Julien Jourdan, Julie Jourdan,
Philippe Spriesterbach, Dominique Gennard, Tom Morgan, Fred Liefferinckx, and Philippe Jourdan.

Inside the museum...

After the museum, we go to Cappi and the fields near the Somme River.

Here is the field were Manfred von Richthofen landed his plane.

Philippe Jourdan is resuming the dogfight.

In back of us, the direction where MvR came from.

We moved to the low fields. Here is the location where MvR can possibly hit
by a ground fire, when maneuvering to go to back to the German lines.

Same location, but with more light (the weather was bad, cold, and light was changing
from minute to minute).

Ehe group. We had a long discussion about all the theories regarding the death of the Red Baron.

A last photo of the Somme river. The location was really full of emotion. It was like if
we can hear the sounds of the guns, the explosions of the bombs, the voices, cry of the soldiers, and all that blood.

We ended the trip in another pub in Péronnes. Of course, the presence of Belgians made unavoidable the degustation of a good Belgian beer.

It was a nice day for all of the participants. The occasion to meet some friends, and to discover new ones.