Verdun Battlefield

"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." - Henry Miller In case you are wondering or haven't heard from me yet, I made it to safely to France and had a successful rendezvous with Thomas, without any issues. Upon arrival in …

... village. It was Saturday and the roads remained blissfully free of lorries and cars all day; I am now in the heart of battlefield territory but have not yet stopped to fully savour it as too busy clocking up the KMs. Around me are constant reminders, ...

... the battle, there had been little villages all over the area, but during the fighting, they were reduced to nothing but rubble..after the battlefield, we called another taxi and headed back into Verdun proper. we got a bit to eat and headed to ...

Insane story of pointless destruction, a huge cemetery and the massive ossuary with untold tens of thousands of dead men's bones, both French and ...

... we were headed in the same direction, towards Luxembourg, we decided we would stop at take a look at the World War I battlefield sites at Verdun in France.  One of the big draws for history buffs are the forts built by the French after the war in ...

Cold and windy and rainy and SNOW!! Ben and Ben and Mike drive up to the hillside battlefield & cemetary of Les Eparges. They walk actual trenches and see huge craters created from mines. Very moving. The girls do what girls do and tour the chocolate ...

... a rate of 5 or 6 a minute and were lobbing them up to 20kms into enemy territory. I had read that the terrain of the Verdun battlefield resembled a lunar landscape. It does. What did hit home was - how huge the area and the depth of some of shell craters ...