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Private tour in Lille Claude V
Canadian battlefields in Vimy, Flanders and the Somme
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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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Two day battlefield tour with transportation and a private guide
Overview of your Lille tour
During these two days I will bring you on the battlefields of France and Belgium where Canadian troops fought in WW1. You will stand in German and Canadian trenches, in the Vimy Tunnels and see the Vimy Ridge Memorial. You will attend the Last Post at the Menin Gate in Ypres, stand on the battlefields of Passendale. In the Somme you will visit the Thiepval Memorial, Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial and the Courcelette Canadian Memorial. We will talk about why these battles were fought and trying to understand the daily life of the soldiers in the trenches but als there time behind the lines.
Your Lille tour itinerary
Day 1: Leaving at 09h00 towards Tyne Cot Military Cemetery and Memorial. Going to Crest Farm Memorial in Passendale and visiting "Passendale 1917 Museum" in Zonnebeke. Lunch. Visit at Hooge Crater, Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood and the Brooding soldier. Essex Farm where Dr John McRae wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields. Some free time in Ypres before attending the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate. Back towards your hotel. Day 2: Leaving your hotel at 9:00 am towards Vimy Ridge. You will go down in the Grange Tunnel, the Canadian and German trenches, spend some time in the visitor Centre before going to the Memorial on the top of the ridge. We will now drive towards Thiepval stopping for a visit to Courcelette Canadian Memorial. Lunch standing near the Lochnagar mine crater, see the Thiepval Memorial, heading to Beaumont Hamel Canadian Memorial Park where you see some of the original WW1 trenches. Back to your hotel I can create a customized tour for you in case you have special requests
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Type: Private Transportation / Category: Van
For transport we use a fully equiped Mercedes Vito.
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Lille, Hauts-de-France, France
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