In Flanders Fields and The Legacy of Passchendaele

This bus tour will take you to numerous sites of interest related to the war of 1914-1918. You will visit the Grieving Parents by Käthe Kollwitz in Vladslo, the trenches along the River IJzer, the John McCrae site at Essex Farm Cemetery near Boezinge and the mine craters at Hill 60. The trip also takes you to a number of remarkable war monuments: the Canadian Brooding Soldier (Sint-Juliaan), the French Guynemer monument (Poelkapelle) and the New Zealand Memorial in Passendale. The world’s largest Commonwealth military cemetery at Tyne Cot (near Passendale) is also included in the itinerary. The day is rounded off with a visit to the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres and the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate. Explanation in English and French.