Most school groups who visit the battlefields of the Great
War tend to concentrate on Ypres and the Somme. And this makes good sense - they are redolent with memory for
British visitors and are easily reached.
We at Culture Trails continue to make arrangements for
schools to visit these areas on short tours.
However, with the centenary of the outbreak of war rapidly
approaching, we have designed a tour which takes a little longer (six or seven
days), but which tries to convey the totality of the war, at least on what the
Germans called the Westfront.
We travel from the point at which the Front ran into the sea
in Belgium to that where it reached the Swiss border, more than eight hundred
kilometres to the south-east.
On the way, we see many of the places whose names echo down
to us over the years, Ypres, Arras, Verdun, as well as many less well known, at
least in Britain, such as Le Linge, Pfetterhouse and St Mihiel.
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