Passchendaele, along with the Somme, sums up the waste of humanity during the First World War. It is only when you see these small, pretty French and Belgium villages now and look at the photos of the same places 90 years ago that you can comprehend what a nightmare it must have been. In many cases all that remained were hastily erected signs to show the location of the local church or town hall. We visited the chateau housing the museum that was rebuilt from Ge...

Up early this morning for Eurostar to Lille and to begin our Battlefield tour. We we are staying the Hotel O which has a military theme to its decor. This would have been good if it was just confined to the reception and dining area but to paint the rooms and halls in olive drab is going to far and turns them into the black hole of Calcutta!! Once we had off loaded our bags Antoinette came and picked us up, first stop was the museum at Passchendaele. We did a S...