Part 1:   Getting there

Part 2:   Z4 exterior

Part 3:   Part 3: Z4 softtop

Part 4:   Z4 trunk

Part 5:   Z4 interior

Part 6:   Z4 engine

Part 7:   Z4 brochure and pricing

Part 8:   (below): Return via WWII battlefields

1940 battlefields
My father-in-law in the 51st Highland Division was on the Maginot Line when the German forces attacked in 1940, and then fell back with the French army to defend Paris. Although other units of the British Army were plucked from the beaches at Dunkirk, the Scots were up to their necks holding a line much further south with the support of General de Gaul's armoured brigade. Out-manoevered by Rommel's panzers, the survivors of the entire division were captured at St Valery-en-Caux and were prisoners-of-war until 1945.

A couple of years ago we took Hubert back to where he had been captured. Another old soldier wanted to know how to find the spot, so I retraced the route on the way back to the UK, and took numerous photographs to act as a guide, some of which are shown below.

Hubert, "I was on the right of this lane and a German machine gun was firing sporadically. I dashed across the lane and found myself in an orchard."

The orchard where he was captured is still there, 62 years later

Along with the old buildings

A couple of miles along the coast

The Scottish Saltaire flies alongside the French Tricoleur

1942 battlefield

Further along the coast was a memorial to Canadians killed in the 1942 raid on Dieppe.