Day 1
Pick up at Amiens Station at 1.30pm.
Half day tour which may include a visit to Beaumont, Hamel Trench Park, Lochnagar
Crater and possibly the Ulster Tower Irish memorial.
Accommodation in local hotel, Peronne.
Day 2
Breakfast. Full day tour - usually all Australian to include
Pozieres, Flers, Bullecourt, Alvert (any private requests usually done
on this day) and the area of Villers Brettoneux, Peronne, Mt St Quenten
Memorial. Sometimes Pozieres or Villers Brettoneux are visited on the
last morning.
Accommodation in local hotel in Peronne.
Day 3
Breakfast. When Ypres is included it is generally done on Day 3,
although it can sometimes be necessary to do it on Day 2 - this depends
on others joining the tour. Other areas visited in Ypres are Polygon
Wood, Tyne Cot, Passchendale, Hooge Crater. The region of Frommelles is
visited en route to Ypres.
From April to the end of September you will stay for the Menin Gate
ceremony which starts at 8pm and lasts approximately 20 minutes. Return
to hotel at 10.20.
Accommodation in local hotel in Peronne.
Day 4
Breakfast. Half day tour in Somme.
Return to Amiens railway station at approximately 1.30pm.
