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As per previous thread I headed to The Somme battlefields at the weekend.
Awesome trip...packed a lot in and would recommend doing it to anyone if not been before ![]() stayed in a great self catering place in Hardecourt aux bois http://www.chavasseferme.com/ ![]() ![]() ![]() loads of stuff at the accommodation that other guests have found ![]() ![]() ![]() lochnagar crater.....amazing ![]() ![]() ![]() German cemetery where the Red Baron (not our one on ses) was buried before his family moved him. very differently maintained compared with commonwealth graves ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() delville woods......most moving place on the trip. Imagine this with all the trees as stumps and a wasteland in 1916 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Delville_Wood ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thiepval memorial...about as large as Arc de triumph and seen from miles all around this area http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiepval_Memorial ![]() ![]() ![]() found a family member....need to find out more as this one I didnt know about and died here ![]() Beaumont-hamel.....amazing place. So many died here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumon...dland_Memorial ![]() ![]() memorial at same place for the Canadians that died here ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() petrified tree from 1916 here ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() the memorial in the distance on this one was basically where the German line was in a deep ridge out of sight....shows how close they were to each other ![]() I've got a couple more somewhere. The anniversary of the Somme outbreak in July 2016 will be a very busy time for visiting. The accommodation I stayed at has been booked for 7 years already!! ![]() |
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Looks like it was a fascinating trip Tim, want to do more of this myself after doing the area around Ypres several years ago.
There's a German Cemetery there as well, very dark and surrounded by huge oak trees and just 3 bronze German soldiers with their head bowed looking over it, as you say, very different to the Commonwealth Cemeteries. Also worth a trip is the old V2 launch site just outside of Saint Omer, you can do this in a day if you take the tunnel. |
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I did it as part of a coach trip, one of the guys my Dad used to know ran them. He was former Royal Sussex Regiment and did a couple of trips a year. You can do most of Ypres in a day if you know where you're going. Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Tyne Cott Cemetry, Sanctuary Wood and the private Museum on the side of the Cafe there, and a few other bits dotted around and then back to Ypres and the Mennin Gate for the Last Post ceremony.
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Glad you enjoyed it Tim and nice pictures as well like the walk through of the old trench system .
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Great photos Tim
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Wow, just trying to imagine being there in the day. Today it looks stunning but when you think what went before.......................
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Great photos Tim. Quiet moving to think what hell went on in what is now a beautiful place.
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Thinking of shooting over to Belgium for the day in a couple of weeks.
Have you got any tips for a whistle stop tour of Ypres...if not we may well end up in Brugge. |
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See my post above. Will be able to get a nice meal in Ypres before the last post ceremony.
If you decide to do Brugges park at the train station and your parking ticket gives return bus travel for a family of 4. |
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you are so near in brugge may as well stay there as thats where the best food and beer will be. I'll be doing the same
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