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Day 3 Continued:

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Day 3 Homeward Bound:

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Day 2 Continued:

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Day 2 Continued:

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Day 2 so far: We have visited Essex Farm cemetery where the Flanders poem was written, visited Langemark German cemetery to see the contrast and then the private collection at Pond Farm which includes a WW1 tank, Tyne Cott the worlds largest WW1 cemetery and Museum Passchendale.

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Pictures from day 1.

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A great first day on yet another wonderful WW1 tour to Ypres, Belgium. We have visited the Menin Gate, Ypres centre for food, chocolate and ice cream and finished off with a visit to German trenches at Bayernwald. The students are tired but have been great all day!

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Rome is a truly magical place with so much History around every corner! Our students have had a great time and the weather has been superb!

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What an amazing three days in Rome and still one more to go!

Our students have really enjoyed their experience in the city and all it has to offer including a tube strike meaning an 8 mile walk to and from the Vatican via an entertaining train journey.

When in Rome!

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We have arrived back in the UK and are on our way up North. Our ETA with a stop is approximately 18.45pm.

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Homeward bound! We have left the Peace Village and are now visiting Talbot House everymans club. This was a place where soldiers would eat and recuperate away from the fighting. The students have a had a good visit and are now ready for home.

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Our final stop for the day takes us to Tyne Cott Cemetery where students saw the sobering sight of 11,800 gravestones.

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Our penultimate stop of the day takes us to the site of the 3rd battle of Ypres also known as Paschendale. Here our students have come face to face with the horrors and scale of warfare on the western front.

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We have just visited the private collection at Pond farm the home to WW1 enthusiast Steyn and his tank! Twenty years of painstaking planning and building lessons to this 👀.

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The group has just had lunch in the beautiful city of Ypres. It’s market day and students have been able to sample the delights of mayonnaise and chips and of course Belgium waffles and chocolate.

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Student have just experienced a different take on commemoration from a German perspective by visiting Langemark cemetery the resting place of 44,000 German war dead.

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Day 2: An early start visiting Essex Farm just outside Ypres which was the site from which John McCrae wrote the famous poem In Flanders Field. It also home to one of the youngest soldiers to die on the Western Front, Pt Strudwick.

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After a very trying morning, we are now on the 12.05pm ferry. Hallelujah!