Winter 2025 19 Day One - Monday 10th Travel and a Taster Depart Ashford to Ride to Folkestone Arrive Folkestone for Channel Tunnel Crossing Arrive & drive through to Messines – Village & NZ Memorial (lunch) Ploegsteert Memorial & 1914 Christmas Football Match Voormezeele Cemetery – A tale from your youth! Hotel to book in – Parking/ Unpack & Change Menin Gate Last Post Ceremony (Wreaths) Day Two - Tuesday 11th Bike Tour - Route TBC Organised Evening Meal in Captain Cooks Restaurant Day Three - Wednesday 12th The Somme Breakfast and depart for visits at Vimy Ridge – Easter 1917 - Trenches and Memorials Arras Memorial – 2 Air VC’s Bouquoy Road Cemetery – Something a bit “off piste” Ocean Villas (Lunch) Newfoundland Park – A Preserved Battlefield Thiepval Memorial to The Missing – Respect and Remembrance Pozieres – An Australian Battle Lochnagar Crater – The Mining War Dartmoor Cemetery – Several graves with interesting stories Devonshire Trench – Poetry & The First Day of The Somme Return to Ypres Day Four - Thursday 13th Bike Tour - Route TBC Day Five - Friday 14th The Ypres Salient Breakfast depart for visits to Essex Farm – Medevac, Under Age Soldiers and more Langemark German Cemetery – How the other side see Remembrance Brooding Soldier at St Julien – Gas Warfare Tyne Cot Cemetery – The Largest CWGC Cemetery in the world Brothers in Arms Memorial & Museum – (Lunch) Sanctuary Wood - Preserved Trenches and Museum Hill 60 – Fighting for the Heights Ypres for shops & evening (Menin Gate optional) Day Six - Saturday 16th Bike Tour - Route TBC Day Seven - Sunday 17th The Rest and Rear Area Breakfast & depart hotel Brandhoek – Noel Chavasse VC & Bar Poperinghe – Shot at Dawn Visit to TocH Lunch (in Poperinghe) Lijjsenthoek Cemetery – Nurses and Nationalities Depart for Calais for Channel Tunnel Crossing Arrival at Folkestone (Local time) & Homeward bound/Hotel
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