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- Day 8
- Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 6:46 PM
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Altitude: 63 m
FranceSaint-Contest49°12’4” N 0°23’20” W
Le Memorial de Caen - 5
March 15, 2018 in France ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
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- Day 8
- Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 6:43 PM
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Altitude: 66 m
- FranceSaint-Contest49°12’4” N 0°23’21” W
Le Memorial de Caen - 4
March 15, 2018 in France ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
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- Day 8
- Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 6:40 PM
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Altitude: 66 m
- FranceSaint-Contest49°12’4” N 0°23’21” W
Le Memorial de Caen - 3
March 15, 2018 in France ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
The French Resistance
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- Day 8
- Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 6:37 PM
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Altitude: 66 m
- FranceSaint-Contest49°12’4” N 0°23’21” W
Le Memorial de Caen - 2
March 15, 2018 in France ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
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- Day 8
- Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 6:35 PM
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Altitude: 66 m
- FranceSaint-Contest49°12’4” N 0°23’21” W
Le Memorial de Caen - 1
March 15, 2018 in France ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Unbelievable war museum. So well done. It will take many posts to share my photos and experience from here. Each place we stop I wish I had more time to explore.
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- Day 7
- Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 8:00 AM
- ☀️ 4 °C
- Altitude: 47 m
- FranceParis Austerlitz souterrain Railway Station48°50’23” N 2°22’15” E
Pegasus Bridge
March 14, 2018 in France ⋅ ☀️ 4 °C
The British 6th Airborne Division landed gliders near this bridge in near silence on June 5, 1944. Each glider held 28 soldiers.
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- Day 7
- Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 7:24 AM
- ☀️ 3 °C
- Altitude: 40 m
- FranceGare de Paris-Austerlitz48°50’35” N 2°21’58” E
Brettville Canadian War Cemetery WWII
March 14, 2018 in France ⋅ ☀️ 3 °C
Earnest Casorso from Kelowna is buried in this cemetary as well as the youngest Canadian soldier, Gerard Dore. We have been doing charcoal rubs of many headstones.
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- Day 7
- Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 7:24 AM
- ☀️ 3 °C
- Altitude: 43 m
- FranceGare de Paris-Austerlitz48°50’37” N 2°21’54” E
Versailles Palace
March 14, 2018 in France ⋅ ☀️ 3 °C
Built by King Louis XIV.
TravelerIt’s spectacular isn’t it?! Looks like you had a beautiful day there! It was POURING rain the day I was there, when I was 15.
Shannan SchimmelmannI love it! Went with a girlfriend in 2002 and I was so impressed the experience has never faded, can’t wait to return one day maybe with my daughters 😊
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- Day 5
- Monday, March 12, 2018 at 5:14 AM
- ⛅ 8 °C
- Altitude: 39 m
BelgiumWesthoek50°51’3” N 2°53’12” E
Ypres, Belgium
March 12, 2018 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
Every single night at 8pm they do a remembrance ceremony at the Menin Gate to honor the thousands and thousands of fallen soldiers. Thier names cover the monument.
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- Day 4
- Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 1:25 PM
- ⛅ 14 °C
- Altitude: 13 m
- BelgiumLangemark50°55’13” N 2°55’2” E
Langemark German Cemetery
March 11, 2018 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
German Cemetery in Belgium. Very different in appearance. 50,000+ men buried here.
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- Day 4
- Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 9:21 AM
- 🌧 8 °C
- Altitude: 45 m
- FranceGodewaersvelde50°48’20” N 2°39’41” E
Hill 62
March 11, 2018 in France ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
Actual natural trenches. Very muddy. Inside were so many war artifacts and photo boxes with hundreds and hundreds of photos by soldiers during the war (some of them very graphic and gory).
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- Day 4
- Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 9:20 AM
- 🌧 8 °C
- Altitude: 34 m
- FranceGodewaersvelde50°48’2” N 2°39’16” E
St. Juliaan
March 11, 2018 in France ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
Gas attacks were done here by the Germans. Canadians filled the gaps where French soldiers fled.
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- Day 4
- Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 9:19 AM
- 🌧 9 °C
- Altitude: 35 m
- BelgiumZonnebeke50°52’13” N 2°59’16” E
Passchendale
March 11, 2018 in Belgium ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
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- Day 4
- Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 9:18 AM
- 🌧 9 °C
- Altitude: 25 m
- BelgiumSint-Jan50°52’35” N 2°55’25” E
Essex Farm Cemetery and Hospital
March 11, 2018 in Belgium ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
Cemetery next to John McRae's hospital (see photo).
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- Day 4
- Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 8:48 AM
- 🌧 8 °C
- Altitude: 53 m
- FranceGodewaersvelde50°46’48” N 2°37’47” E
Cemetery
March 11, 2018 in France ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
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- Day 3
- Saturday, March 10, 2018
- ⛅ 12 °C
- Altitude: 84 m
- FranceVimy50°22’26” N 2°48’38” E
Vimy Ridge
March 10, 2018 in France ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
The place where Canadians first fought as a country. They succeeded in taking Vimy Ridge back from the Germans. The memorial contains the names of soldiers without graves. I found my family's name onRead more
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- Day 3
- Saturday, March 10, 2018
- ⛅ 12 °C
- Altitude: 60 m
- FranceEecke50°46’46” N 2°37’24” E
Thiepval
March 10, 2018 in France ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
HUGE Monument to recognize all the missing soldiers in the battle of the Somme. As more soldiers' bodies are still discovered each year, they scratch off the names on this monument when the soldiersRead more
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- Day 3
- Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 6:04 PM
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Altitude: 74 m
- FranceArras Railway Station50°17’17” N 2°46’53” E
Cemetaries
March 10, 2018 in France ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We visited cemetaries all around the area today where students had family members buried or named on a monument because they couldn't find thier body. Great research and presentations from theRead more
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- Day 3
- Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 5:11 PM
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Altitude: 156 m
- FranceFoncquevillers50°9’10” N 2°37’53” E
Beaumont Hamel Battlefield
March 10, 2018 in France ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
A significant battle took place here on July 1, 1916. The 29th Regiment (from Newfoundland) lost about 85% of thier men this morning. Thier battle was riddled with miscommunication and errors leadingRead more
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- Day 2
- Friday, March 9, 2018 at 11:23 PM
- ☁️ 10 °C
- Altitude: 90 m
- FranceReims49°15’14” N 4°2’4” E
Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Reims, France
March 9, 2018 in France ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Visited the most amazing Cathedral I have ever seen today.
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- Day 2
- Friday, March 9, 2018 at 11:19 PM
- 🌙 7 °C
- Altitude: 339 m
- FranceFort de Vaux49°12’2” N 5°28’12” E
Fort du Vaux, Vaux-devant-Damlou, France
March 9, 2018 in France ⋅ 🌙 7 °C
Visited an underground fort.
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- Day 2
- Friday, March 9, 2018 at 11:03 PM
- 🌙 7 °C
- Altitude: 345 m
- FranceDouaumont49°12’27” N 5°25’28” E
Ossuaire Douaumont, France
March 9, 2018 in France ⋅ 🌙 7 °C
130,000 unnamed soldiers lie under this monument. Bones visible through the windows. Crosses mark 14,000 identified soldiers actually buried here. What a humbling experience.
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- Day 2
- Friday, March 9, 2018 at 6:14 PM
- ☁️ 8 °C
- Altitude: 50 m
- FranceVis-en-Artois50°14’49” N 2°56’37” E
Cemetery - Vis-en-Artois
March 9, 2018 in France ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Stopped here to recognize 2 relatives of a student buried in this cemetery.
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- Day 1
- Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 9:26 PM
- 🌙 4 °C
- Altitude: 200 m
- FranceVerdun49°9’49” N 5°23’5” E
Verdun
March 8, 2018 in France ⋅ 🌙 4 °C
Saint Paul's Hotel in beautiful Verdun, France.
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- Day 1
- Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 5:41 PM
- 🌧 8 °C
- Altitude: 203 m
- FranceBudling49°20’6” N 6°21’22” E
Maginot Line
March 8, 2018 in France ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
Great tour of the underground system of tunnels to protect the French border.