Our Belgium adventures…
Thursday
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Group to visit St Martins Cathedral.
St Martin’s Church, also called St Martin’s Cathedral, is a church and former cathedral in the Belgian city of Ypres. It was a cathedral and the seat of the former diocese of Ypres from 1561 to 1801 and is still commonly referred to as such. At 102 metres tall, it is among the tallest buildings in Belgium.
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Group to visit Tyne Cot Cemetery & Memorial to the Missing.
Tyne Cot is the resting place of 11,962 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials.
It is advisable to take small change in euros if the group would like to use the toilet facilities
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Group to visit Essex Farm.
There are 1,200 WW1 servicemen buried or commemorated in this cemetery. Of these burials 103 are not identified.
Essex Farm Cemetery itself is probably one of the most visited sites in the salient, and this is principally because of its association with John McCrae, author of the famous poem “In Flanders Fields”.
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Group to visit Langemark German Cemetery.
Langemark cemetery is one of only four First World War German cemeteries in the Flanders region.
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Friday
Sanctuary Wood Museum (Hill 62).
In Flanders Field Museum
Leonidas Chocolate Shop
Group to attend the Last Post Ceremony which takes place every evening at the Menin Gate
Saturday
Passchendaele Memorial Museum 1917
