Historical Tour of Flanders 2017

2017 WWI  & WWII Historical Tour to Flanders

Guided tour of war memorials and battlefields by a professional historian

Dates: September 24th to 28th incl.

Duration: Five days (4 nights)

Accommodation:  Four nights at Messines Peace Village

Food: Breakfast each morning, packed lunch each day and three evening meals

Flights:  Aer Lingus Cork/ Paris (CDG)/Cork

Bus transfers: Paris Airport/Messines/Paris Airport plus daily excursions

Cost: 650.00€pp

Some of the proposed sites for tour

  • ·         Kemmel  Information Centre – Battle of Messines 1917  & Bayernwald German trenches
  • ·         Walking tour of Messines: Peace Park, Messines Historical Museum (Old Town Hall), St. Nicolas Church and New Zealand Memorial and cemetery
  • ·         Museum of the Battle of Fromelles & Australian Memorial Park
  • ·         Visit 1940 Dunkirk Museum
  • ·         Tyne Cot British Military Cemetery
  • ·         Passchendaele Memorial Museum
  • ·         German Cemetery at Vladslo
  • ·         Francis Ledwidge Memorial at Bosinghe
  • ·         Menin Gate, Ypres for Last Post ceremony
  • ·         In Flanders Museum, Ypres

 

If interested a copy of the tour application form can be got from

Mike McLoughlin

Dunmanus, Old Cratloe Road, Limerick

Ph. (M) 087 7594 940

Email: [email protected]