16. Bastogne 'Battle of the Bulge'

We woke up and took Maddy on a walk. Today we had a scenic drive across Belgium, it took us about 1.1/2 hours to get to Bastogne. We are visiting Bastogne as it is home to the 'Battle of the Bulge', one of the biggest battle sites in WW2. Firstly we headed to the another American memorial, which was unfortunately closed, but very magnificent and in the shape of a star.

The musuem we planned on visiting was just next door to the memorial. We had a look around the musuem and it was very interesting, we saw a couple of tanks, one had been blown all the way through to the other side during the battle, and different vehicles such as the SS beetle. The Museum showed all the figures about the battle and the Allies were completely outnumbered in every way and they still managed to stand and then break through, which eventually lead them bit by bit all the way to liberate Berlin.

There is a famous story about a Officer called Anthony McAuliffe, who replied to a letter from the Nazi's asking them to Surrender and he replied to the Nazi's "NUTS".

Tomorrow as part of the Museum they offer multiple tickets so we are heading the the Foxholes tomorrow and to the actual underground base in which that letter was sent. This is another shorter musuem.

After the musuem we headed to attempt to have a shower at a local pool, who didn't let us in even though had earlier said it would be fine.

We found a nice park up next to a wood locally and took Maddy on a nice walk around. (sticking to the paths) after learning Mines are still found monthly here.Weiterlesen