Welcome to another trench chats.

I'm really pleased this week to welcome Samantha Cowan from Canada.

Hi, Sam.

Hi, Avah, how are you?

I'm fine, fine.

Thanks for coming.

Now, I know you've got a healthy interest and indeed knowledge

of the military history of both World Wars, but you're not an historian as such you're a tourism

professional. You work in battlefield tours. That's right. Yeah, I'm an operator. So I'm more

dealing with hotel contracts and guides and working with so many different

local communities around the world that have some sort of connection to the Canadian

battlefield story.

Yeah.

And I think, you know, one of the things, you know, we tend to think the Great War was just

1914, 18.

We've had a century since the Great War and a century of

people visiting battlefields. And Battlefield tourism, which both you and I work in, is a really

interesting and important subject. Very much, though. Absolutely. And for you, I mean, you studied

tourism at university. Yep. Yep. And for you, I mean, you studied tourism at university.

Yep.

Yep.

And I went into it not thinking that I would kind of follow in my dad's footsteps

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