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While we don't profess to be Historians, a decade living in these parts HAS rubbed off on us. We have visited many of the famous local Battlefields of WWI, WWII and earlier, along with bunkers, V2 Launch-sites, pill-boxes, gun-emplacements and associated museums... Not once, but MANY times!

It's a sobering thought that nobody born in 2014 will ever have any contact with anyone who remembers "The Great War", first-hand ! And even more-so to realise that Geoff's Grandfather would have actually known people who had MET Napoleon !

Unusually for Survivors, Geoff's Grandfather actually talked about aspects of his WWI service with him... but with nobody else... Not his wife... or his daughter... Just the grandson, sitting at his feet. The grandson who learned to keep his trap shut... "Little boys should be SEEN and not HEARD", he used to lament !

July 2014 will mark 100 years since the beginning of that conflict. Public awareness will be heightened as never before, not just THIS year, but right through to November 2018.

It's likely that many Antipodeans will have a renewed interest in learning more about their relatives/ancestors, seeing and experiencing, first hand, something of where they fought or died, particularly in places such as The Somme, Passchendaele, Iepers (Ypres), Diksmuide, Arras/Vimy Ridge... And later, during WWII: The Battle of Britain, Dunkerque, the V1 and V2 Launch-sites, the Normandy Landing Beaches... Vimy Ridge (AGAIN!)...

And MORE:  October 2015 will herald the 600th Anniversary of the Battle of Azincourt... a mere 14 miles from Embry !  (Stop and contemplate how the rather rude "reversed Victory sign" gesticulation came to be !)

So... We're NOT bone-fide Tour Guides... But we're USED to driving on the "wrong" side of the road, and WE SPEAK KIWI / STRINE !  And we know our way around... We can ARRANGE most things that you might desire !  We even have MEMBERSHIP with some of the local museums...

If required, we can pick you up from airports or railway-stations, arrange tours for you, transport you to and from places of interest, advise on the best use of your time, you name it!