Your Holiday Itinerary

4-Day Break

• Day 1 – We travel to Belgium for a 3-night stay.
• Day 2 – Battlefields of Flanders (included). Today we look at the battlefields around Ypres, starting at the preserved trenches at Sanctuary Wood and seeing the museum. We then move on to Tyne Cot Cemetery and take lunch at Hooge, with its private museum. In the afternoon to the Messines Ridge sector and the nearby Irish Peace Tower. At Ploegsteert we study the story of the Christmas Truce and see the Memorial. We end the day at the 'Last Post Ceremony' in Ypres. B
• Day 3 – The Somme, Death of a Generation (included). The haunting Somme battlefield is our destination today. We begin at the Historial Museum at Péronne and then to the largest British Mine Crater on the Western Front at La Boisselle. At Thiepval we visit the Memorial and then the Ulster Tower before seeing Newfoundland Park with its preserved trenches. We end the day at Serre and see the area where war poet Wilfrid Owen fought. B
• Day 4 – To Calais and then home. B

5-Day Break

• Day 1 – We travel to Belgium for a 3-night stay.
• Day 2 – Battlefields of Flanders (included). Today we look at the battlefields around Ypres, starting at the preserved trenches at Sanctuary Wood and seeing the museum. We then move on to Tyne Cot Cemetery and take lunch at Hooge, with its private museum. In the afternoon to the Messines Ridge sector and the nearby Irish Peace Tower. At Ploegsteert we study the story of the Christmas Truce and see the Memorial. We end the day at the 'Last Post Ceremony' in Ypres. B
• Day 3 – Battles of Artois and Cambrai (included). From Armentières we study the battle of Loos also seeing the grave of Rudyard Kipling’s son and the Loos Memorial. We then take lunch in Arras and see the Memorial before looking at the Canadian assault on Vimy Ridge and the Cambrai area where tanks were used in great numbers in 1917, passing Bourlon Wood and seeing the Cambrai Memorial. B
• Day 4 – The Somme, Death of a Generation (included). The haunting Somme battlefield is our destination today. We begin at the Historial Museum at Péronne and then to the largest British Mine Crater on the Western Front at La Boisselle. At Thiepval we visit the Memorial and then the Ulster Tower before seeing Newfoundland Park with its preserved trenches. We end the day at Serre and see the area where war poet Wilfrid Owen fought. B
• Day 5 – To Calais and then home. B

B=Breakfast