BIRD BATTLEFIELD TOURS have a number of tours to France and Belgium, exploring the Western Front, in 2022. These are mostly tours restricted to a single family group, at their request. We can always arrange tours for families wishing to see sites associated with their family history. Often they would rather enjoy these commemorative tours without the distraction of having to be polite to strangers. We do not list these tours.
A tour of the D-DAY beaches, UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, SWORD. Seeing the landscape, rather than looking at photos, gives perspective: the killing ground at low tide Allied soldiers had to cross before reaching the (comparative) safety of the sea wall is terrifying – 300 yards of open sand with only a mined iron obstacle for […]
A tour of Civil War battlefields, mostly in Virginia. Starting at Gettysburg, then to Antietam (or Sharpsburg as it is still known in the South), and on to Harper’s Ferry, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Chancellorsville… taking in Grant’s HQ at City Point (at the confluence of the James and Appomattox rivers) on the way to Petersburg and […]
‘I have, many and many a time, thought since of this strange dream upon the water: half-wondering if it lie there yet, and if its name be Venice.’ – Charles Dickens after his visit of 1844. VENICE, the ‘strange dream upon the water”, was founded by refugees, escaping from the barbarians in the 5th century. […]
