The Christmas Truce to Passchendaele BESPOKE YPRES SALIENT DAY TOUR
'A Foreign Field.....' WW1 BATTLEFIELD TOURS
YPRES Battlefield Day Tours with Søren
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A Foreign Field WW1 Tours ON TRIPADVISOR
Whole Day Ypres Salient Tour:
Please note this is a bespoke all day door to door tour for 1 to 4 guests
If you have a larger group discounts may apply so please contact me with the details
9/10am Pick up at Hotel/Menin Gate Ypres,
· Hill 60 (SCENE OF 'TUNNELLERS WAR')
· Messines village scene of fierce fighting in 1914 and 1917
· New Zealand Memorial Messines and German bunkers
· Pool of Peace mine crater
· Scene of Xmas Truce 1914
· Ploegsteert Memorial and cemeteries
· Irish Peace Park
(We will have to see how many of the above sites we can see before lunch!)
12 or 1 pm LUNCH AT HOOGE CRATER CAFÉ AND WW1 MUSEUM or ANZAC REST AT POLYGON WOOD
(Lunch not included, at Hooge a filling sandwich/salad + Drink + Museum visit is 10 euro)
· Hooge Crater ( where liquid fire was used for the first time, also reconstructed German trenches and original German pill box )
*one euro donation payable to the honesty box on site helps with the upkeep of the site
· ESSEX FARM
(WHERE JOHN McCRAE COMPOSED 'IN FLANDERS FIELDS')
· THE BROODING SOLDIER MEMORIAL
(SCENE OF THE FIRST GAS ATTACK 22nd APRIL 1915)
· LANGEMARK GERMAN CEMETERY
(SCENE OF THE 1914 'MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS')
· TYNE COT - BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE
(THE WORLDS LARGEST CWGC CEMETERY)
· 17.00 / 17.30 hrs return to Ypres