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Verdun Slideshow
Top Hotels in Verdun
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Hostellerie Du Coq Hardi Verdun
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Hotel du Tigre Verdun
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Hotel Les Colombes Verdun
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Hotel Montaulbain Verdun
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La Cloche D'or Verdun
12 reviews
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Le Village Gaulois Verdun
29 reviews
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Le Prunellia Verdun
12 reviews
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Auberge De Jeunesse Verdun
1 review
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Hotel Restaurant Le Quai Verdun
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Hotel Orchidees Verdun
12 reviews
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Le Privilege Verdun
4 reviews
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Le Saint Paul Verdun
6 reviews
Verdun
Travel Blogs from Verdun, France
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Forests
This is a top pick! ... down and started talking. On the 11th of the 11th, armistace came. The railway carriage where the documents were signed, went on a tour of France before returning to Compiegne. It sat in a shed for a few years, then on the 22nd of June 1940, Adolf Hitler ...
13/05/2009
... pounded for days by German 88, 105 and 150 with countless direct hits, it only had to surrender weeks after the German did occupy France and the armistice was signed. As a sign of respect the French crew of the "Fort De Fermont" was allowed to parade out ...
Verdun
... that was very 'educational'. They had this little dirt mountain made to look exactly like it would have looked during WWI. Verdun is a battle that was truly amazing. 48 soldiers defended a few villages against thousands of germans and drove them back. ...
Conclusion
... va être maintenant... Furansu desu yo! Bon le débarquement et la reprise du bagage se font rapidement, chose rare en France. Et maintenant, faut prendre le RER, et je SAIS que ça va être physique. Bah la chose se fait pas attendre, déjà ...
Day 9
So far the weather has been pretty average for Europe... even in spring where it should be much nicer and warmer than what we have now. Unfortunately this morning we have to get up at 0545am to go gat Alex at Frankfurt airport and is raining like the ...
12/05/2009
... the family, we all got up bright and early to go and do some sightseeing of the 1st world war starting with the "Memorial of Verdun" this place is amazing no matter how many times I have seen it, it always brings me goose pimples. I then took every one ...
Day 5 Reims to Verdun
... a freak. I drank a couple of hot chocolates while the owner fed his tropical fish and mended a broken telly. Arriving in Verdun not expecting much, I realised the Rough Guide had got it wrong. There was a nice waterfront, the sun came out, ...
Day 6: Rest day in Verdun
... 0 KM Best bit: walk around the historic fort Worst bit: nothing bad today really Apparently the WW2 General, Patton, described Verdun and its environs as a "nasty country where it rains every day and the whole wealth of the people consists in ...
Day 7
... and half to a little place called Etain 20km from Verdun in the Meuse area. On arrival it was amazing... I did not think I left France so popular (lol).the last time I saw them all together was for my mum's funerals. We had a typical French lunch lasting ...
14/05/2009
... the "Voie sacree" or for our English listeners the sacred way. This is the only road that was able to bring supplies to, Verdun during the critical months of the battle. It is remembered with a massive monument just a few km outside Verdun and every km ...
VERDUN
... 2005 Hey everyone, the morning after the Louvre, June 23, Chris and I headed out to Verdun, a small town in central France. Verdun is a special town, because from the middle of 1916, for 300 constant days, Verdun was the sight of some of the bloodiest ...
WW1 Battlefield of Verdun
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 ...
Verdun
... 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 1871 with the ...
Verdun
There was a battle here during the World War I and 400 000 German soldiers, 400 000 French, 300 000 British soldiers died. Now there is a monument to remind of these ...
Daar zijn we weer - 2
03 augustus Daar zijn we weer - 2 Het wordt eentonig, vandaag zijn we weer in Verdun beland en daar waren we een paar weken geleden ook al. Om niet te zeggen een paar máánden geleden ook. What the h.. , kan ons het schelen, dit is wel so relaxed. ...
Bamboo canes and Cannabis plants.
... has been very different and colourful. Each one in its way has both insightful and welcoming. I moved from Liglet to a WWOOFing post down in Verdun un Lauragais. It has to be said that I don't think that I will meet anyone quite as mad as Bernard Perez my ...
Verdun, France
... than anything that could have been imparted from a textbook. Ben is an excellent guide and takes us on a tour of forts near Verdun called Ouverage de froide Terre. It took 30,000 shells and direct target hits. We crawl into forts that are restricted ...
Verdun, France II
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 ...
just could not stay away
... and 600k's later we are in Verdun at a cheap version of a Formula 1. Why? So early tomorrow we can drive to Epernay to watch the start of stage 5 of the tour de france :) Currently waching the Germany v Spain game which is pretty boring ...
Verdun
... to put on a brave face and pretend he wasn't sick. I managed to see the Museum and Ossuary at the Battlefields of Verdun before Attila informed me that his symptoms were getting worse and he felt we should see a doctor. I punched "Hospital" ...
Op z'n Frans
De wegwijzertjes op de route zijn, zoals de Fransen zelf zeggen, op zijn Frans. De hele Loirestreek was perfect bewegwijzerd en ook in de Bougognestreek hadden we niet te klagen. Het probleem zit hem meer in de overgang van de ene streek naar de ...
A small town of big historical importance
... pool on the camp site! "Let's jump to the pool!" was our first thought. Then we had some supper and went sightseeing. Verdun is a charming little town. We walked through the city centre, the medieval gate, saw the monument commemorating the war etc. ...
Verdun, Lorraine, France - Day 33/34
... 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 ...
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