Top Picardy Day Trips

During this 6-hour tour, your guide will take you through the different stages of the Battle of the Somme; looking at the strategic aspect, its consequences, the human cost, the impact of the war on people and landscape, and much more! Brigitte is a local guide who has a deep knowledge of her subject and is passionate about her job!

Starting in the beautiful towns of Arras or Albert we head to the notorious battlefield of the 1916 Somme offensive. From trenches to memorials we will guide you through the planning and execution of this infamous campaign. We only operate private tours, this will be your tour and adapted as necessary to meet your needs during the time. If you have any special sites, such as areas that involved your relatives, please ask as we are keen to adapt the tour specifically for you. With our years of living and working on these iconic sites we aim to ensure you leave with memories of the sacrifice of a generation. Given suitable notice time we are able to research and prepare a bespoke tour to cover an individual soldier or unit.

After meeting your guide you head first to Villers-Bretonneux and spend the morning uncovering the history of the Australian force in the dark days of the 1918 German Spring Offensive. After lunch, we move on to the Battle of the Somme. From trenches to memorials we will guide you through the planning and execution of this infamous campaign. We only operate private tours, this will be your tour and adapted as necessary to meet your needs during the time. If you have any special sites, such as areas that involved your relatives, please ask as we are keen to adapt the tour specifically for you. With our years of living and working on these iconic sites we aim to ensure you leave with memories of the sacrifice of a generation. Given suitable notice time and the availability of records we are able to research and prepare a bespoke tour to cover an individual soldier or unit.

This tour covers the sites where the Australians fought in the Somme in WW1: from the 1916 battle of Pozieres to Villers-Bretonneux where the Germans were halted in 1918. A great immersion into Australian history with an expert guide, each tour is a unique experience. All our tours are Private and/or personalised with a maximum of 7 passengers.

From the beautiful towns of Arras or Albert we head out to the war scarred landscape of this region. Your experienced guide will tell you the history of these sites and how the war unfolded over these sections of the Western Front. We only operate private tours, this will be your tour and adapted as necessary to meet your needs during the time. If you have any special sites, such as areas that involved your relatives, please ask as we are keen to adapt the tour specifically for you. With our years of living and working on these iconic sites we aim to ensure you leave with memories of the sacrifice of a generation. Given suitable notice time and the availability of records we are able to research and prepare a bespoke tour to cover an individual soldier or unit.

Battlefield historian and guide Bart will take you on a tour of the Somme battlefields. It will be exclusively your tour, there will be no added persons, so the guide can give you his undivided attention. Over the course of 8 hours, we will visit all the key sites of this significant and tragic battle of 1916. We will take your specific personal wishes and preferred locations, or ancestry related sites into consideration; depending on available information and the time required to do research. The tour starts at 09.00 at the guide's B&B and tour headquarters in Beaucourt-sur-l'Ancre, right in the heart of the battlefields, where Bart will join you in your car to visit the historical sites and its histories. Bart is eager to share his knowledge with you.

2026 will mark the 110th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme,one of the largest and bloodiest offensives of the First World War. This battle lasted 4 and a half months resulting in 420 000 casualties in the British army, among them 360,000 were from the British Isles. To honour their memory, Get-a-guide is offering a “Taylor-made tour”. If you had a British relative who fought during this terrible battle; we will be pleased to research his service and design a full-day tour going in his footsteps. This includes visits to the major First World War sites in the Somme; such “Lochnagar Crater”, Thiepval Memorial of the missing and Newfoundland Memorial Park. As this work takes time, the tour can only be booked between now and the end of March, before the busy guiding season begins. If you are interested, please provide us with your relative’s name and any information you may have about them.

Entirely private tour by an official, insured, Somme tour-guide. Halting the German Spring Offensive near Villers-Bretonneux in 1918, the Australians pushed back the opposition during the 100 Days Offensive. The crowning glory of the Australian Imperial Force in Europe, especially compared to the horrendous losses of the two years previous. Amongst the highpoints of the tour we follow the last flight of the fabled Red Baron, who was almost certainly brought down by an Australian machine-gunner and we pay a visit to one of the greatest Australian sportsmen of the 20th century; Cecil Healy.

Visit the USA doughboys fighting in the Somme and Western-Aisne departments during the First World War with an expert, and official guide of the Battlefields. As early as July 1916 the US had volunteers in the front lines in this area, as part of the French Foreign Legion and British units. As the American Expeditionary Force, the USA joined the war in April 1917. The first US soldiers were killed in action during November 1917 in the Battle of Cambrai. through 1918, pushing the Germans back after their Spring-Offensives had been stopped, the involvement of the US Army in the Somme and Western-Aisne grew from May up until October of that year; ultimately conquering the famous Hindenburg line. We will be looking over the course of eight hours into all of these subjects.