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Press Release: Tin helmets, turbans, and felt hats

Tuesday 5th August 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


If you haven’t had the chance to visit the fascinating Man Culture War exhibition at Ypres’ In Flanders Fields Museum you have one month left. Three night short breaks by train to Ypres from just £159 per person including breakfast, return train travel and the 3rd night free.

Over 50 different nationalities from the colonial empires fought on the side of the Allies in the fields of Flanders. Learn about the Aboriginals, Indians, Eskimos, and Maori who fought against culture shock, xenophobia and enemy guns, for a nation they didn’t inhabit. In Flanders Fields Museum presents the many faces of the Great War in Man Culture War which runs until 7th September 2008.

Discover the battlefields where the soldiers fought on a guided Ypres Salient Tour, including the battlefields, memorials and cemeteries of the Western Front. Railbookers’ Ypres Salient Tours from £23pp.

Visit Ypres with Railbookers and stay at the centrally located 3* Novotel Ypres Centrum from £159 per person for three nights with the 3rd night free, including breakfast and return train travel.

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Notes to Editor:

Price quoted for the Novotel Ypres Centrum. Price valid for arrivals before 31 October 2008. For further dates and prices please see www.railbookers.com    
Eurostar trains run from London St Pancras International or Ebbsfleet International to Brussels Gare du Midi (Zuid Station).
Eurostar runs from London St Pancras International to Brussels in approximately 1 hour 51 minutes.
Trains run from Brussels Midi Station to Ypres approximately every hour. The journey time is 1 hour 35 minutes.

Flanders World War 1 Battlefields Tour (bookable through railbookers):
Morning Tour - £29 per person

10am-2pm
The tour includes:
       First Aid Dressing station at Essex Farm where "In Flanders Fields" was written by John McCrae
       The German cemetery at Langemark
       Village of Passchendaele
       Tyne Cot Cemetery
       Sanctuary Wood museum and trenches
       ANZAC and Canadian sites

Afternoon Tour - £23 per person
2.30pm-5pm
The tour includes:
       Visit to Hill 60
       Bayernwald trench complex
       Bedford House Commonwealth cemetery
       ANZAC and Canadian sites

Morning and Afternoon Tour - £50 per person

Railbookers:

Railbookers tailor-makes short breaks and holidays to Europe by Eurostar and rail, including handpicked quality hotels.

 

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