Brussels Stories

This weekend, starting Friday morning, will be a big history lesson by two history proffs, mostly on WW1.

(Pieces from the itinerary)
Friday
WW1 Videos on the bus to our start in Péronne (to see war museums and art icluding drawings by German painter and engraver, Otto Dix (1891-1969)). Follow the frontline, Cléry-sur-Somme to Lochnagar crater. Thiepval (Memorial honors 72, 087 soldiers whose bodies were never found) to Beaumont Hamel Memorial Park and trench lines (dedicated to the memory of New Foundland’s troops). Pass by Albert on the way to Amiens.
Saturday
Cathedral, shopping, home of Jules Verne, the Saint Acheul gardens (archeology site of a human settlement dating from the early Stone Age (ca 280, 000 years ago). Museum of Picardie (incl. exhibition on Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898), Roman and early Christian artifacts, medieval sculptures and paintings as well as 19th and 20th c. art works).
Sunday
Amiens to the tunnels dug by the Canadians at Vimy Ridge. Drive to Arras, then back to Belgium, see Tyne Cot, cemetery for the battles of Ypres, to the Sanctuary Wood trench (kept in the state it was at the end of the war when Canadians left them). Drive into Ypres. To Cloth Hall (rebuilt), to Menin, attend the ceremony "the Last Post". Then back to Brussels.