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Vimy Ridge is another moving place, http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/others/vimy.html it's silent even the birds seem to know what happened.
Panclan said:
Vimy Ridge is another moving place, http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/others/vimy.html it's silent even the birds seem to know what happened.
Remember it is Canadian land.. (no passport needed) Very moving indeedcrockett said:
Ypres (wipers) is about 50 miles out of your way !!. On the way to Lemans we sometimes stop at Sees - beautiful old town with a cathedral, worth a stop
We stopped at Sees on the way back from the classic this year....we were also put up in Sees a few years ago by my mates insurance company after we snapped the prop on his Capri on the way to LM. Very nice locals, we had a great night with them, rounded off by a young girl taking us home and cooking us dinner (nothing more before you say lol).Did you spot the war wounds on the cathedral?
Rouen is a nice village - well we went there one December for the weekend. Xmas stalls in the street Noel beers st Nicholas lovely cathedral or is it Lutheran?
Not sure if that's worth going to or not but it's a nice ish place to go.
Ypres we spent a good 4-5hours going round the various memorials. Note were not religious and none of those memorials had any specific family ties. However I can tell you it's so moving. You go in its like flies line after line stunning white grace stones and other memorials te grass and flower beds as far as the eye can see in immaculate condition. It is sad you will probably cry a lot but rather than tv documentaries it makes the war so much more real real people real stories. Check out the dates and you can tell web battles happened and some were very bad. I saw one grave with >40 men all that was known about their identity was they were part of x battalion who were fighting in x area a big push.
Then you read some of the lovely words families have put onto the graves.
You may dismiss this as a load of tosh but it's emotional cultural and I can assure you an experience you will never forget.
Not sure if that's worth going to or not but it's a nice ish place to go.
Ypres we spent a good 4-5hours going round the various memorials. Note were not religious and none of those memorials had any specific family ties. However I can tell you it's so moving. You go in its like flies line after line stunning white grace stones and other memorials te grass and flower beds as far as the eye can see in immaculate condition. It is sad you will probably cry a lot but rather than tv documentaries it makes the war so much more real real people real stories. Check out the dates and you can tell web battles happened and some were very bad. I saw one grave with >40 men all that was known about their identity was they were part of x battalion who were fighting in x area a big push.
Then you read some of the lovely words families have put onto the graves.
You may dismiss this as a load of tosh but it's emotional cultural and I can assure you an experience you will never forget.
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