Cultural Site Possibilities/Towns to Stay in:
--Brugge, Ieper (Ypres), Bastogne, and Mons in Belgium
--Versailles with its Hall of Mirrors
--Le Bourget Airport north of Paris, where Charles Lindbergh landed and today holds
France's Air and Space Museum
--Bayeux, Mont St.-Michel, St. Malo, Amiens, Compiegne, Arras, Reims, Chateau
Thierry, Montmedy, Verdun, and Thionville in France
--Spectacular Lighthouses and Scenery on the Cherbourg Peninsula.
--Diekirch, Larochette, and Luxembourg City in Luxembourg.
--'Big Six' French Cathedrals of Lille, Rouen, Reims, Chartres, Amiens, and Notre-Dame
in Paris
--Bayeux Tapestry Museum
--French Champagne Winery Country Tour
--Beautiful Monshau south of Aachen
--tours start at either Brussels Int or Charles de Gaulle Airports; if clients
want to stay in Brussels or Paris before or after the tour, this can be arranged.
Other Military Sites that can be Fit-In:
--Waterloo Battlefield/Museums; Wellington and Napoleon
--Agincourt and Crecy Battlefields/Museum
--Maginot Line Forts; Hackenberg
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World War I Site Possibilities:
Belgium Flanders:
--Ypres Salient of British Commonwealth fame; the town, Hill 60, Menin Gate, 'Last Post'
Ceremony, St. Julien (site of first gas attack on the Canadians), Passchendaele, Langmark German Cemetery, Essex Farm Cemetery
(John McCrae's famous poem 'In Flanders' Fields'), Tyne Cot Cemetery
French Somme and Pas de Calais:
--Vimy Ridge Canadian Monument (tunnel tour)
--Notre-Dame de Lorette
--Peronne 'Great War' Museum
--Battle of the Somme: Thievpal, Beaumont Hamel Canadian Park, Albert Trench Museum, Lochnagar
Crater, Dellville Woods South African Grounds and Museum
--Villers-Bretonneaux (Australian forces)
--Bony American Cemetery and Bellicourt Monument
--Cantigny
Champagne and the Aisne-Marne:
--Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood American battles
--Hill 204 Monument at Vaux
--Aisne-Marne and Oise-Aisne American Cemeteries
--Soissons battle
--Blanc Mont and Ferme de Navarin Monuments
Verdun:
--Ossuary Monument to the Missing
--Trench of the Bayonets
--Fleury Museum and Monument to the vanished town
--Fort Douaumont
Meuse-Argonne and St. Mihiel:
--Vauquois Hill; mine warfare
--Romagne American Cemetery
--Montfaucon American Monument
--St. Mihiel Salient Montsec American Monument
--St. Mihiel American Cemetery
--Hattonchatel/Vigneulles viewpoint
--SGT York site of heroics at Chatel-Chehery
--Lost Battalion Monument
--Pennsylvania State Monument
--Missouri Monument (Harry Truman fought in this area)