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September 5, 2019 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Heathrow
September 6, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Kings cross / st pancras
September 6, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Tee hee hee... Cockfosters
Gare de Lille Europe
September 6, 2019 in France ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Campanile Hotel Seclin
September 6, 2019 in France ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Sweet merciful crap! Google directions are going to save my life. I tried to wing it manually for the short distance from the Lille station to the hotel (I was cheaping out by not turning on roamingRead more
Brave man to drive a stick again during first trip to Europe. Did I say brave? I meant 🤪 LF
TravelerI get lost a lot but these windy roads are damn fun to drive on. A stick shift is the only way to drive roads like these :-)
TravelerEver get the feeling people are laughing at you when you try to speak their language? Now, I'm not saying people at laughing at me but... people are totally laughing at me. The lady at this hotel definitely is. She's been wonderfully accommodating to my deficiencies but with every "merci" she gives an hilariously conspicuois"who does this mean guy think he's kidding" smile.
Lochnagar Crater
September 7, 2019 in France ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
30m deep, 90m across.
Museum of the Somme
September 7, 2019 in France ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
September 7, 2019 in France ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Newfoundlanders
This is a great site. You can literally walk paths through trenches, and it demonstrates just how close the lines were to the enemy's lines
Arras Memorial - Faubourg d'Amiens
September 7, 2019 in France ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
153 canadians buried here.
Vimy Ridge Canadian Memorial
September 7, 2019 in France ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
The Brooding Soldier / St Julien
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Yorkshire trench & dugout
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Essex Farm - John McCrae Memorial
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
John McCrae wrote In Flanders Fields while stationed here.
Memorial Museum Passchendaele
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Passchendaele Cdn Memorial Crest Farm
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Tyne Cott Cemetary
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
There's an eye-opener, and no mistake.
Hooge Crater museum
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Has nothing to do with the actual crater. Food was quick a decent (rowdy kids aside :-)). Museum was okay but short and didn't have much to add to other museums in the area. I was hoping for a CraterRead more
Hill 62 Canadian Memorial
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
Sanctuary wood Hill 62 museum
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
The Passchendaele museum has great reproduced trenches but for the real thing check this museum. Real trenches, real tunnels, real craters. A perfectly preserved little area.
TravelerThere was a tunnel... A tunnel!!! And a long tunnel too. Long and dark. I was going to go the distance but there was a guy in front of me and all I heard was <sploosh>... "sh*t!" ha ha. um, yeah, I'm not wearing the shoes for that kind of mishap. And I'm not about to wear sandels tomorrow
In Flanders Fields Museum
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Tongerlo, ypres
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Menin Gate - The Last Post
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Walking the Ramparts
September 8, 2019 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Gare de Lille Flanders
September 9, 2019 in France ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Gare du Nord Paris
September 9, 2019 in France ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C