1. Full day tour:

Visit the major WW1 battlefield sites including the "In Flanders Fields Museum" at Ypers (Wipers!), probably the best ww1 museum! "It gets under your skin!"

Visit

  • The largest WW1 German cemetery (Student cemetery) in Langemark.
  • The world’s largest WW1 cemetery of the Commonwealth: Tyne cot Cemetery at Passchendale.
  • The Menin gate at Ypers, hill 60, hill 62, bunkers during the day.
  • Visiting the centre of Ypres.
  • Mount Kemmel cote 160, the Hills of Flanders.
  • The "Talbot House" (Toc'H !) in Poperinghe (in WW1 called "Little Paris") or we will visit the Passchendaele Museum Memorial 1917.
  • Different WW1 trenches and also memorials from the Commonwealth.
  • Messines Ridge and the "Pool of peace", minecraters 1917.
  • The cemetery you want to visit. Private made tours under request.
All this in an ALL-INCLUSIVE Day tour with a real lunch (not a packed lunch!), drinks, museum tickets, insurance, etc.

We pick you up at your hotel or b&b at about 8.45AM and bring you back to the hotel or b&b at about 5.30 PM

Our Day tour runs every: TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY,THURSDAY,FRIDAY,SATURDAY AND SUNDAY , the Whole year round, except on Christmas day , New-years day and the last three weeks of January

Visit our LINK-Page for further information about all the places visited during the trip. All info about a relative or a soldier killed during the Great War can be found at www.cwgc.org. Please bring a print-out of the information on the day of the tour, to locate the cemetery you want to visit.

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2. Last Post Tour:

"Every evening since 1928, at precisely eight o'clock, the Last Post - the traditional salute to the fallen warrior - has been played under the Menin Gate Memorial in Ieper, Belgium.

This daily tribute - performed by a team of local buglers - serves to honour the memory of the soldiers of the British Empire, who fought and died in the immortal Ypres Salient during the First World War.

It is the aim of the Last Post Association to maintain this ceremony in perpetuity."

Be part of an experience, you will never forget!
The Last Post ceremony at the Meningate in Yper (Wipers), during an evening tour.

We pick you up at your hotel or b&b at 18.15 pm, and drive to Yper.

  • From April to September: A stop is also made at Passchendale for a short visit to the world's largest Commonwealth cemetery; Tyne cot cemetery at Passchendale.
  • From end September to March: We visit also the St George Memorialchurch in Yper. At 8.00PM ,we experience the Last Post ceremony at the Meningate in Ypers.
    After the ceremony, time to visit the Meningate, and return to Bruges.
We drop you in Bruges anywhere you would like us to : your hotel, a restaurant, the Market square etc…

From time to time, organisations, school groups, army cadets, bands or choirs take part of the ceremony. On the website of the "Last Post association", you'll find a calendar with all of those ceremonies. You can visit the website at www.lastpost.be

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