Private tour in Ypres Claude V

A day in Flanders WW1 battlefield experience

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Claude V.

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Hi, my name is Claude, I was born and raised in Flanders Fields. The Great War became a passion when in 1981, Nelly and I purchased a bar and restaurant just opposite Ploegsteert Memorial to Missing. We still meet people coming from all over the world at our place. I started doing research with Ted Smith and Tony Spagnoly in the eighties, and then with many other authors and historians. I am now a specialized battlefield guide in the plains of Flanders in Belgium and the Somme area in France. Below you will find my standard tours but I can also build a custom tour, you provide the information and I'll do the rest. I like to talk about history of course but also about all what makes our daily life in France and Belgium. I am flexible, provide a high standard service, can bring a walker or a wheelchair to make your tour more comfortable. I am using digital maps and old pictures of the places you will visit. For the tours I use a Mercedes Vito Tourer fully equipped and fully insured for tour purposes. Guide license "GL70/2007.03 delivered by the "Commisariat Général au Tourisme. Transport license TLAB251 300/1. (mandatory in Europe) Official guide of the "Tourist Office of Comines-Warneton" Member of the Scientific Committee of the "Plugsreet 14-18 Interpretative Centre" Member of the "Royal British Legion" Somme Branch Member of the "Western Front Association"

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Overview of your Ypres tour

We are leaving your hotel in Ypres (Ieper) or in Lille towards Messines on the battlefields of June 1917. You will stand near a mine crater who was detonated on 7 June. You will go in the Lettenberg bunkers near Kemmel and in Lijstenhoek Military Cemetery, you will visit the center and see the evacuation system for wounded soldiers. I will bring you in the death cells in Poperinge and will show where the execution poles were standing. Time for Lunch. You will go now towards Langemark German Cemetery, Gravenstafel, the New Zealand Memorial and Tyne Cot cemetery. A stop at Essex Farm where John McRae wrote "In Flanders Fields" before arriving in Ypres showing you the square and most important buildings before attending the Last Post service at the Menin Gate. After the Last Post we are heading back towards your hotel. I can create a customized tour for you in case you have special requests

Your Ypres tour itinerary

-40 minutes driving to Messines. -Wijtschate, Kemmel, Poperinge, Langemark, and Passendale are all 10 or 15 minutes away from each other. -After the tour a 40 minutes trip back to your hotel. Please contact me for a customized tour.

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Transport details
Type: Private Transportation / Category: Van

For transportation we use a Mercedes Vito minibus fully equiped for battlefield tours, airco, umbrellas etrc.

What's included
Other: Transport in our Minibus, all taxes, Lunch, entrance fees.
Private Guide
Private Transportation
Tickets: entrance fees
What's not included
Other: Personal expenses. Souvenirs, alcoholic drinks and all who is not specified in the description.
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Accommodation
Meeting location

Ypres, Flanders, Belgium

at your hotel or train station in Ieper or Lille

  • You can request a specific meeting location (for example, your hotel) during the checkout.
Other details
Tour categories
History
Tour reference number
272059
Languages
French
Dutch
English
Activity level
Minimal
4.9

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Hours icon 12 hours
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Private tour for 1-6 people
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