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WW1 battlefields, ypres etc

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FluffyMummy123 · 26/07/2007 21:49

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octo · 26/07/2007 21:50

Cod - do you lie near Devizes?

octo · 26/07/2007 21:50

or live even?

FluffyMummy123 · 26/07/2007 21:52

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octo · 26/07/2007 21:53

just thought you did LOL

octo · 26/07/2007 21:54

btw know nothing about ypres

Desiderata · 26/07/2007 21:55

Vimy Ridge is worth a visit, Cod. That's in Northern France. It was the scene of a huge battle (mostly fought by the Canadians as the Brits were all re-forming at the time). It has an enormous memorial opened by George V. It was the site of the first electrically lit tunnel ... you can visit this, and you can walk the trenches and see just how close the Allied/German lines were.

Profoundly sad .. but you don't need me to tell you that.

Poperinghe, very close to Ypres, is where they have kept the poles that the 'shot at dawn' men were tied to. It's also the site of Talbot House ... I have a thread going on about that at the moment.

There are a couple of nice places in Ypres itself, but generally speaking, all the pensions in Belgium and Northern France are to a very high standard.

Arras is very beautiful, and central to many of the sites.

wheresthehamster · 26/07/2007 21:59

Tyne Cot cemetery (english cemetery)
Sanctuary Wood (battlefield in original state)
Cloth Hall museum(ypres)
Notre Dame de Lorette (french cemetery)
Langemark cemetery (german cemetery)

Am reading off dd1's itinerary as she's just come back. They stayed at Flanders Lodge (Best Western)

Desiderata · 26/07/2007 22:02

Yes, Tyne Cot is the biggest cemetary.

FluffyMummy123 · 26/07/2007 22:29

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FluffyMummy123 · 26/07/2007 22:32

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Lilymaid · 29/07/2007 15:52

This B&B has been highly recommended.

littlelapin · 29/07/2007 16:07

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lapsedrunner · 09/08/2007 07:00

Beumont Hamel is good www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=memorials/ww1mem/BeaumontHamel&CFID=15923514&CFTOKEN=3065 5297, just down the road from Thiepval

lapsedrunner · 09/08/2007 07:03

Don't know any B&B but we stayed here www.chavasseferme.co.uk/ last year self catering. Have to say we stayed in Chavasse House and it was not as clean as I would have expected on arrival. That being said the newly renovated cottages looked nice.

samanthar · 09/08/2007 13:48

www.hotelsabroad.co.uk/b1425.shtml

this was lovely and is alasdair sawday book too

www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/somme/serre.html
is a really peaceful and easy place to get to visit

i went there with a horrid group of badly behaved year 9 boys but went back with dp when we were on holiday

www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/
seems the best site

thiepval was also very moving but in a differnt way

we went to talbot house and there at leats the boys were better behaved and it got trought to them

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