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ITINERARY for the Battlefields Tour

Updated: Feb 16, 2019


Wednesday 20th February 2019

00:30am Depart Bridgwater college Academy 08:50am Depart Folkestone Shuttle Reference 79596268 10:25am Arrive France - local time

11:45am Bayern Wald trench system

12:45pm Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm)

13:30pm Lunch

14:00pm Hill 60

15:00pm Langemarcke cemetry

16:00pm Tynecot CWGC

18:30pm Dinner at Ganzeke restaurant, Ypres

And a chance for chocolate shopping

19:30pm Briefing for Menin Gate post ceremony

20:00pm Menin Gate ceremony

20:30pm Depart for accommodation in Ypres

Briefing for Day 2

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Thursday 21st February 2019

08:30am Breakfast

Depart for the Somme, France

10:30am Lochnager Crater

12:00pm Newfoundland Memorial Park

13:00pm Old Beaumont Road (chain of evacuation)

13:30pm Auchovilliers - lunch

14:30pm Role of the RAMC

16:30pm Thiepval memorial to the missing

18:00pm Dinner in Auchonvilliers

19:30pm Return to accommodation in Ypres

Briefing for day 3


Friday 22nd February 2019

08:30am Breakfast and check out of accommodation

09:30am Brandhoek cemetry

11:00am The tunnels, caves and quarries of Arras

13:00pm Vimy Ridge Canadian memorial and trenches 14:00pm Lunch

15:30pm Notre Dame de Lorette 17:50pm Depart Calais on inbound shuttle ​17:30pm Arrive UK local time 23:00pm ETA 15

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