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[Page 17]
March 1916
it was not till about 1-30am the next morning before we got into the train. The train was a fair length & had 1st 2nd & 3rd class carriages & I was lucky enough to have a 1st class. There was about fifteen hundred men on the train & eight in each compartment & with our equipment there was not much spare room.
The French railway stations are different to ours for they are only raised about a foot from the ground & not near as finished off as our own. We passed through the wine growing area & there are some fine scenes to for the grapes are grown up the slopes & on top of the hills and mountains. Fruit is also in abundance & at this time of the year all the trees, vines & hedges are beginning to get their leaves & everything is green As you While passing through among the mountains snow could still be seen of the tops of some & it was a great sight. As you go north you get into pastoral country & now all the young crops are showing their heads & look well. France seems to be a net work of roads & rivers & the roads are made of white metal & with green fields it makes a grand scene. The train took us within a few miles of Paris & then branched off & we were all disappointed for we were wanting alook at Paris