Hey Rob, happy new year! This is an excellent guide. I appreciate the background you gave for each location and the concise and informative overview. I'd like to visit the Ypres Salient and think it'd bean excellent way to learn about the Battles of Ypres. Thanks for the links. I'll check out the videos you linked as well. I'd like to watch the Last Post Ceremony too. It sounds quite moving and I'd definitely want to get there early. Superb video, Rob! Keep up the nice work. I wish you a wonderful 2025 :). I also hope you had a great holiday season. Have a great day, bud! :)
PS. I started listening to the Old Front Line podcast since you've mentioned it in your videos and a community post :). It's a great podcast and very helpful for learning about WWI. Thanks again for the recommendation :).
I visited ypres or as my grandad called it "wipers" in one day just the museum near zonnebeak hill 60 tyne cott and the menine gate. We also saw the caterpillar etc. The last holiday I shared with my dad before he passed. We were sitting in a pub in bruges late that night and I was watching back what id filmed at the 8pm service and a local man and his wife came over and asked me and my dad " are you british " he went on to ask if we had visited due to one of our family having been there all those years ago and when we said yes my dads grandad my great grandfather he said " thank you so much for what he did " i was deeply moved my that deeply. Moved indeed.
Yes the towns are pronounced all sorts of ways. I’m Australian and I lived there for a year once, working, racing bikes and visiting all these places. Since I was in Flanders and learnt to speak the local dialect , it’s Ieper , which sounds like Eeperr, just roll your tongue on the R slightly.
@ Thank you for enlightening me, that’s really appreciated, now I will go away and practise for my next visit. A very happy new year my European cousin. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
@ I’m envious of you, I’ve been visiting the battlefields for 30 years or so, but not for long enough periods to learn any Flemish and especially since almost all the people speak such good English. - makes me feel quite ashamed really 🇬🇧🇪🇺
I definitely want to return and visit for a couple of day's then id go to the rRichewauld forest cemetery where my dads uncle and his lancaster crew lay at rest.
Ridiculous that you can't even mention the name of "the failed Austrian painter", without annoying the algorithms. Having to resort to euphemistic language is vexatious. Whistle while you work. The failed Austrian painter is a twerp. He's 1/2 barmy, so's his army.. Don't tell him, Pike! See: Dad's Army. Thanks.
Another excellent video Rob. Iv been to all the sites you've recommended and each and every one is very interesting... Ramparts is also worth a visit. I live in Newtownards Northern Ireland and on our local cenotaph is a young lad by the name of Chas Thompson. This young man and our local hero is buried in Ramparts and in September past I payed him a visit just to let him know he hasn't been forgotten....
Thanks for the kind mention.
Absolutely - thank you for sharing the great content
Solid tour choices. Really enjoy these types of videos.
Cheers JD. Going to do a few more. Normandy in a day will be a tough one 🤣
@ - Solution: Utah Beach in a Day, Omaha Beach in a Day, etc
@@TheHistoryUnderground Yeah 100%
@@TheHistoryUnderground Very smart.
I agree the Hoogecrater is a verry nice museum.
Yeah it's really good
Thanks for sharing, Rob. Hopefully, one day, I'll be able to go. God bless, Robert
Thanks Rob. Ramparts Cemetery Lille Gate is also worth a visit.
Wonderful thank you and happy new years.
Happy New Year 🍻
Hey Rob, happy new year! This is an excellent guide. I appreciate the background you gave for each location and the concise and informative overview. I'd like to visit the Ypres Salient and think it'd bean excellent way to learn about the Battles of Ypres.
Thanks for the links. I'll check out the videos you linked as well.
I'd like to watch the Last Post Ceremony too. It sounds quite moving and I'd definitely want to get there early.
Superb video, Rob! Keep up the nice work.
I wish you a wonderful 2025 :). I also hope you had a great holiday season.
Have a great day, bud! :)
PS. I started listening to the Old Front Line podcast since you've mentioned it in your videos and a community post :). It's a great podcast and very helpful for learning about WWI. Thanks again for the recommendation :).
Happy New Year Alex 🎉
@@historyinyourhand1787 Thank you, Rob :) Happy New Year to you also :). I wish you a fabulous year!! :]
I visited ypres or as my grandad called it "wipers" in one day just the museum near zonnebeak hill 60 tyne cott and the menine gate. We also saw the caterpillar etc. The last holiday I shared with my dad before he passed. We were sitting in a pub in bruges late that night and I was watching back what id filmed at the 8pm service and a local man and his wife came over and asked me and my dad " are you british " he went on to ask if we had visited due to one of our family having been there all those years ago and when we said yes my dads grandad my great grandfather he said " thank you so much for what he did " i was deeply moved my that deeply. Moved indeed.
That's lovely mate
That is a helpful video.
I'm glad you enjoyed it
Not Canadian, but went up Hill 62 and was amazed at just how far I could see
I want to make some more videos around that area
Yes the towns are pronounced all sorts of ways. I’m Australian and I lived there for a year once, working, racing bikes and visiting all these places. Since I was in Flanders and learnt to speak the local dialect , it’s Ieper , which sounds like Eeperr, just roll your tongue on the R slightly.
I used to use the French pronunciation, Bur to be sure I asked a local who told me they pronounced it "Ieper - eeper" so that's what I use nowadays.
I'm still struggling g with "Hooge" - any help? By the way your posts are superb, never beaten.
@@jackthebassman1 the Flemish pronounce their G as a H , so it’s a bit like Haawga but the aa is more like Orr ..
@ Thank you for enlightening me, that’s really appreciated, now I will go away and practise for my next visit. A very happy new year my European cousin. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
@@jackthebassman1 I’m Australian I lived there for a year once , learnt to speak Flemish there
@ I’m envious of you, I’ve been visiting the battlefields for 30 years or so, but not for long enough periods to learn any Flemish and especially since almost all the people speak such good English. - makes me feel quite ashamed really 🇬🇧🇪🇺
I definitely want to return and visit for a couple of day's then id go to the rRichewauld forest cemetery where my dads uncle and his lancaster crew lay at rest.
Ridiculous that you can't even mention the name of "the failed Austrian painter", without annoying the algorithms. Having to resort to euphemistic language is vexatious.
Whistle while you work. The failed Austrian painter is a twerp. He's 1/2 barmy, so's his army.. Don't tell him, Pike! See: Dad's Army.
Thanks.
Hmm I agree. Unfortunately it's the path history creators have to steer if they don't want their video's buried
Another excellent video Rob. Iv been to all the sites you've recommended and each and every one is very interesting... Ramparts is also worth a visit. I live in Newtownards Northern Ireland and on our local cenotaph is a young lad by the name of Chas Thompson. This young man and our local hero is buried in Ramparts and in September past I payed him a visit just to let him know he hasn't been forgotten....
Yes a great suggestion, I want to make a video there at some point soon