Private tour in Ypres 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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We are leaving your hotel at 09:00 towards Fromelles to visit "Pheasant Wood Military Cemetery", the museum and the site of the mass grave. You will stand on the front line where the Australians launched their assault near the statue of Simon Fraser, the Cobber's statue. You will see "VC Corner Cemetery" Now driving towards Ploegsteert where we will have a lunch. Driving through Messines towards Hill 60 to see the Memorial to the 1st Australian Tunneling Company and the Caterpillar mine crater. Going to Polygon Wood to the Memorial to the 5th Australian Division. You will stand at Tyne Cot Military Cemetery and Memorial, it is the CWGC largest cemetery in the world, the memorial is bearing the names of 53 000 soldiers who have no known grave. You will also see the German Cemetery of Langemark before heading to Ypres where you will have some free time before attending the Last Post at the Menin Gate. Back to your hotel. I can create a customized tour for you in case you have special requirements.
Ieper or Lille to Fromelles is half an hour driving, -Half an hour to Messines. -Polygoon Wood, Hill 60 Zonnebeke, Passendale and Ypres are all 15 minutes away from each other. -An hour to go back to your departure place. Please contact me for a customized tour.
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We use a Mercedes Vito fully insured and equiped for battlefield tours.
Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
at your hotel or train station of Ieper or Lille
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