Stories, tour guides and practical tips about the WWI and WWII battlefields in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, written by your guide Peter Vansteenkiste.
Visiting war graves in Belgium
War graves in Belgium lie in hundreds of cemeteries, from Tyne Cot with its thousands of headstones to small plots of a few dozen graves beside a farm track. Finding...
The Menin Gate Last Post is sounded under the memorial in Ypres every evening at eight o'clock. It has been played there since 1928, interrupted only by the German occupation...
A Passchendaele tour follows the Third Battle of Ypres, fought from 31 July to 10 November 1917 across a few miles of low ridges east of Ypres. British, Australian, New...
A Battle of the Bulge tour covers the German offensive that broke through the Ardennes on 16 December 1944 and was fought across Belgium and Luxembourg through the winter into...
A Band of Brothers tour in Bastogne follows Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, through the winter of 1944–45. It is the part...
Battlefield tour prices in Belgium are quoted clearly in advance here, whether the tour is on the ground or in the air, with no hidden fees or surprises. This page...
Battlefield tours for veterans and their families in Belgium
Battlefield tours for veterans and their families are usually built around something specific: a grave, a name on a memorial, or the ground a relative served on. Because every tour...
To hire a private battlefield guide in Belgium it helps to know what the guide is actually qualified to do. This page sets out the training, the site permits and...
Small group battlefield tours in Belgium run here for one party at a time. There are no scheduled departures and no shared vehicles: the group is whoever you are travelling...
Battlefield tours in Belgium cover two wars within a few hours’ drive. In the west lies Flanders Fields — Ypres, Passchendaele, the Menin Gate — where the front barely moved...