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In this short a time, clearly there is not enough time to see even parts of "everything" ... But what else would you add?

After leaving Paris, we are planning to stay at a local hotel near Normandy, then another one near the Belgium border, then drive to the sites near each.

1 posted on 07/17/2015 12:32:02 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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The fortifications around Liege and Namur, and the Meuse valley battlefields tracing the 1914 invasion, through Charleroi and Mons; Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial (not very far west of Waterloo, IIRC); The German Right, seaside anchor for the long WWI front where it violently stabilized during and after "the race to the sea" starts at waters edge, north of Diksmuide, east of Dunkirk.

Frankly, that's just off the top of my head, and just one war. Their's Bastogne, of course, plus a whole lot more. I could spend half a year on the eastern frontier of Belgium just visiting the memorials for the Franco-Prussian War, around Metz and Sedan. Just tracing the movements of one French division over the first month of that war takes you to places where memorials for that war, WWI and WW2 are all cobbled together in the same half-mile.

And that overlapping goes back millennia... But, no doubt you already know that Belgium is a Battlefield.

26 posted on 07/17/2015 2:25:57 PM PDT by Prospero (Omnis caro fenum)
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Douaumont Ossuary and the Trench of Bayonets, both in Verdun. I can guarantee that images from both places will stay with you the rest of your life.


27 posted on 07/17/2015 2:31:16 PM PDT by 109ACS (If this be Treason, then make the most of it. Patrick Henry, May 1765)
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I see only one response among the ones here about the Romans. The Roman sites I visited when I was serving in Germany were quite well-done for documentation and I expect the ones in France would be the same. The recommendations you’ve received are all great on the more recent sites but I wouldn’t want you to overlook a Roman site by running out of time.


29 posted on 07/17/2015 3:10:56 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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In Luxembourg, go pay your respects at Patton’s grave. For that part of Germany, Trier to see the Roman structures.


32 posted on 07/17/2015 4:03:21 PM PDT by omega4412
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Get a tour of the Maginot line bunkers, they are hauntingly amazing.

Tour Anne Franks home in The Netherlands, not to far a drive. Remember this is what socialists want to do to us here.


35 posted on 07/17/2015 4:34:30 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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