Near the beginning of the movie A Star is Born, you see Jackson Maine watching Ally as she sings the…
The Arc de Triomphe has always been a rallying point for soldiers both starting and ending major campaigns in war….
There are numerous graves at Père Lachaise with sculpted effigies of people sitting, lounging or sleeping on top of their…
If you Google “is Flanders Fields a real place,” the pre-baked Google response is American centric and falls flat of…
The Panthéon in Paris is King Louis XV’s great contribution to the world of cemeteries… sort of. The original intent…
Evidence of the Great War is still visible on the landscape in Western Europe. More than a billion shells were…
Brugge’s prime and strategic location on the North Sea has ensured that the area was inhabited long before recorded history……
This is my second Easter spent in Brugge. The first was in 2011… when the Tour de Flanders (La Ronde)…
In 1916, Menin Road was the route that Allied troops took from Ypres to the front line. Today, the front…
Cabaret-Rouge is close to Vimy Ridge (France) and is one of a handful cemeteries we visited outside of Ypres and…
The overwhelming thing about touring the countryside in Belgium and France is the sheer number of cemeteries in a relatively…
The focus of our visit to France and Belgium has been on finding our relatives who died in the Great…