4-Day Break

• Day 1 – Local departure by coach then onwards to northern France or Belgium for a three-night stay.
• Day 2 – Ypres and the Armistice Day Ceremonies (included). We attend ceremonies in Ypres for 11th November, with a special commemoration at the Menin Gate at 11.00am and another in the evening at 8.00pm – including the veteran’s parade from the main square in the morning. You will have all day in Ypres to visit WW1 locations in the town, such as the In Flanders Fields Museum or St. Georges Memorial Church. However, the main focus of the day will be to attend the Last Post Ceremonies in Ypres. B
• Day 3 – The Ypres Salient (included). Today we visit sites in and around the Flanders battlefields, the main British sector in WW1. We start at the excellent Passchendaele Memorial Museum with its extensive displays of artefacts and reconstructed WW1 dugout. We then see Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest British war cemetery in the world, also seeing the Visitors Centre. Lunch at Hooge. In the afternoon we got to Zillebeke to see the unique ‘Aristocrats Cemetery’ where officers from the landed gentry families of Britain are buried. At Hill 60 we look at mine warfare beneath the Western Front, seeing examples of huge mine craters blown by both sides. We end the day at Essex Farm, where Canadian Poet John McCrae wrote ‘In Flanders Fields’ in May 1915, before travelling into Ypres for the evening. B
• Day 4 – Journey to Calais then return home. B

Included Meals: B=Breakfast

Entrance fees to museums & places of interest are at extra cost.

Accommodation
You will stay for three nights at a minimum 3-star hotel in Belgium or northern France. The hotel will have a bar and all bedrooms will have a T.V. and telephone.

Extras
Optional Excursions.
Single room supplement £79

Travel Insurance: from £30.95

What's Included?

• Specialist Battlefields Guide
• Free local joining points
• 3 nights’ accommodation with continental breakfast
• Travel by Silver Service luxury coach which includes:
  • Extra legroom for your added comfort
  • Comfortable rear lounge to relax and chat
  • FREE personal headphones with a choice of music & DVDs
• Porterage in all hotels
• Smaller, more personal group
• Royal British Legion Support Group

Battlefield Tours prices are per person, based on two sharing. Named accommodation may be changed if necessary by the tour operator. If this is the case you will be advised of all new details at time of enquiry. All holidays and prices are subject to availability and changes.