The Battlefields and Beer Tour
Five Day Itinerary
Items in Red are Must Sees.
Items in Blue are Possibles, as time allows.
Day One – Canadian Monuments in France/Belgian Beer
Depart Lille, France – 9 a.m.
Vimy Monument, France
Hill 70 Memorial – Loos-en-Gohelle, France
Brewery Omer Vander Ghinste Tour, Bellegem, Belgium
The Last Post, Menin Gate Ypres, BE – 8 p.m.
Day Two – 2nd & 3rd Battle of Ypres
Essex Farm, John McCrae Memorial
Kitcheners Wood
St. Julien – The Brooding Soldier
Passchendaele Memorial
Passchendaele Museum, Zonnebeke, Belgium
Leroy Boezinge Breweries Tour
Day Three – City of Ypres
In Flanders Fields Museum
Ypres Reservoir Cemetery
Walk the Ramparts from Lille Gate to the Menin Gate
- Ypres Ramparts Cemetery
Brewery de Kazematten tour
The Last Post – Menin Gate 8 p.m.
Day Four – South Salient/West Flanders
Messines Ridge, Irish Peace Park, Belgium
St.Eloi Craters
Saint-Jans-Cappell, France – SUPER Beer Store
Brewery St. Bernardus, Watou Tour, Belgium
Day Five – Behind the Lines
Poperinghe
- Talbot House
- Shot at Dawn
- Dozinghem Cemetery walk from Poperinge 12 kms
- Lijsenthoek Cemetery
- Poperinghe Old British Cemetery
Sint-Sixtus Brewery tour, Westvleteren, Belgium
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