The Protea B&B

Annie and Alain warmly welcome you in their beautifully renovated Bed & Breakfast THE PROTEA adding a touch of South Africa to you visit to FLANDERS FIELDS for a realaxing atmosphere.

'Meet Alain and discover all the secrets of the Great War
in FLANDERS FIELDS '

Your host Alain will help you trace a special area ordig up information about where family members fought, were wounded or killed.
Alain will dig into his rich archives and work out your own private tour of the battlefields focussing on the elements that really matter you..

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The village GHELUVELT is by the Worchesters and WALES well know for the first battle of YPRES, also called WIPERS. on 31 october 1914.

Nearby places of interest in GHELUVELT are

* 1th South Wales Broderes, Worcestershire RGT

* Gloucetershire RGT and 18th Div Memorials

* A Germand advanced underground dressing
station
.
* A few meters from The Protea we can still spot the position of a TANK TRAP
.
* In FLANDERS FIELDS, The Protea lies between the ALBRECHT and WILHELM STELLING ( Line)

* 1 km from here was the German Hindenburg Line, today we can there visti the HOOG CRATER Museum and Cemeterey.

* Some 8 km the North we cross the Flanders I and FLANDERS II line and find the village of PASSCHENDAELE, also the end of the 3th Battle of Ypres after 103 days fighting and a loss of some 245.000 man.

* Ypres, also called WIPRES, during WWI.

* Under the MENINGATE a memorial to the missing, the LAST POST is daily played at 8 pm sharp.

* The CLOTH Hall withe the in FLANDERS FIELDS MUSEUM.

* FROMELLES is only 35 min driving and in less than an hour are the BATTLEFIELDS of Vimy Ridge and Arras.

* The Somme is just one and half hour from YPRES ( WIPERS )