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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The tour starts in Ypres, or Lille at your hotel, accommodation or from other places, available on request. Tyne Cot Military Cemetery and Memorial the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission's cemetery. Crest Farm Memorial in Passendale the last strong point captured before Passendale church Passendale 1917 Museum in Zonnebeke Lunch Hooge Crater. Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood where Canadians fought in the spring of 1916. St Julien the Brooding soldier the first memorial to be built by Canada in Flanders Essex Farm where Dr John McRae wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields. I can create a customized tour for you in case you have special requests
A 40 minutes drive to Passendale, Zonnebeke, Hill 62, St Julien, Essex Farm and Ypres are all 15 minutes or less, away from eachother. Please contact me for a customized tour.
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For the tours I use a Mercedes Vito, it is comfortable, fully-insured and fully-equipped for tour purposes - umbrellas, binoculars, digital maps, photographs, videos and refreshments etc.
Lille, Hauts-de-France, France
at your hotel or train station in Lille or Ypres
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