FLANDERS & THE GREAT WAR REVISITED
Flanders will be running a huge tourist and visitor welcome programme 2014-18 to recall the Great War or First World War.
|They gave away packets of poppy seeds with the poem by Canadian John McCrae - In Flanders Fields.
Although it includes as well as the words Flanders and poppies the request 'Take up our quarrel with the foe' it was written in a time and place when that seemed suitable. However, Flanders is welcoming visitors from 50 countries including Germany and will be recalling the Christmas truce when the allies and German soldiers played sang carols together, played games and shook hands - and had to be forced by powers above to resume fighting.
www.visitflanders.com
FIRE TEMPLE, ZOROASTRIANS
Azerbaijan has a temple of fire built on a natural gas plain in 1700s for the Zoroastrians. Their country is full of amazing buildings of all ages including Gobustan petroglyphs, rock carvings of men and animals.
www.gobustan-rockart.az
TRIPS and RESEARCH
More useful contacts:
wtmlondon.com
famtripsandinspectionvisits.com
Flanders will be running a huge tourist and visitor welcome programme 2014-18 to recall the Great War or First World War.
|They gave away packets of poppy seeds with the poem by Canadian John McCrae - In Flanders Fields.
Although it includes as well as the words Flanders and poppies the request 'Take up our quarrel with the foe' it was written in a time and place when that seemed suitable. However, Flanders is welcoming visitors from 50 countries including Germany and will be recalling the Christmas truce when the allies and German soldiers played sang carols together, played games and shook hands - and had to be forced by powers above to resume fighting.
www.visitflanders.com
FIRE TEMPLE, ZOROASTRIANS
Azerbaijan has a temple of fire built on a natural gas plain in 1700s for the Zoroastrians. Their country is full of amazing buildings of all ages including Gobustan petroglyphs, rock carvings of men and animals.
www.gobustan-rockart.az
TRIPS and RESEARCH
More useful contacts:
wtmlondon.com
famtripsandinspectionvisits.com
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