An extended special tour led by Jersey author and historian Ian Ronayne.
Detailed coverage of the Channel Islands contingent’s experience and an additional visit to the abbey and fortress of Mont St Michel.

Itinerary includes:

• Morning fast ferry to St Malo.

• Luxury coach to Amiens with lunch stop at Les Frutiers restaurant in Villedieu-les-Poeles.

• Two Nights, half board, at the Novotel in Amiens.

• Two nights at the Holiday Inn in Arras. One dinner at the hotel. Free time in Ypres to dine out and experience the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate.

• Visits include:

• The battlefields of the Somme: Beaumont Hamel battlefield park, Thiepval Memorial, Lochnagar Crater and Delville Wood.
  Guided visit to the Battle of the Somme Museum, Albert.

• The Jersey Contingent memorial at Guillemont.

• The Australian Memorial at Villers Bretonneux.

• Royal Guernsey Light Infantry memorial at Les Vertes Rue and Cambrai Memorial to the Missing.

• Vimy Ridge Canadian Memorial and preserved trenches.
  Notre Dame de Lorette French National Cemetery.

• Memorial to Islander William Bruce VC and the Portuguese Army Cemetery.

• The battlefields of Ypres: Messines Ridge, Passchendaele Museum, Zonnebeke and Tyne Cot Ceremony.

• Friday return coach with lunch break at the pretty artist’s town of Honfleur.

• Overnight stay, half-board, at the four-star, Mercure Hotel on the causeway to Mont St Michel.

• Free evening and full day Saturday to visit the fortified town and Abbey of Mont St Michel on the shuttle bus from outside the hotel.

• Saturday afternoon transfer to St Malo for the evening ferry to Jersey.

£795 per person

£245 single supplement

                         this itinerary is subject to change