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Please read this bit
first - It will only take a minute or so but worth the time...
As you may already have found, there are many people offering battlefield tours, but
we are possibly the only long-established UK
fully
registered specialist WWI tour
company with a proud history of national awards (Vanity Fair)
and
national
press recommendations (Sunday Times & Daily Telegraph) and client
testimonials that speak for themselves.
Self-Drive Tours
People who wish to visit the battlefields of the Great War quite
often first think of a conducted tour.
However, for those truly seeking to reveal the legacy of the Great
War, nothing can beat the freedom of exploring the battlefields
without the constraints of a coach/minibus group dictating the pace.
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The only
specialist WWI tour company
to be listed in the
Top Ten Battlefield Tours
2008
"Some of the best tours of the region are provided by
battlefield-tours.com, whose guide to the Somme, James
Power, has been nominated by Telegraph Travel and
Wanderlust Magazine readers for the Paul Morrison Guide
of the Year Award" |
If
you intend visiting the battlefield you need to be well briefed.
Many visitors just turn up thinking all will be clear, which is
certainly not the case. This is where our
Self-Drive guide expertise comes in to play in
providing you with an abundance of friendly maps, plans, diagrams and easy to
follow narrative and directions. Our
Self-Drive tour 'package'
also includes your hotel accommodation and Channel crossing (for UK
travellers) all dovetailed together so all you have to do is just
pack and go - we make it as simple as that!
And there's
more...
Self-Drive -
and include a personal guided tour!
We can easily
arrange for an English speaking guide to pick you up at the hotel we
book for you and take you on a one or two day personal tour, in
addition to the
Self-Drive tour guides we provide.
This is a truly personal service and as such you will just be in the
company of our experienced guide, and not other members of the
public. This service is
particularly popular with visitors from Australia, New Zealand and
Canada who may already be in France and who wish to focus on
specific battlefields where their fellow countrymen served.
PLEASE BOOK AS
FAR AHEAD AS POSSIBLE AS THE HOTELS & GUIDES WE USE SOON BECOME FULLY BOOKED.
To
find out more about our Self-Drive tours please click
here
(including comprehensive FAQs and
downloadable guide) .
We would like to extend a special welcome to visitors to this site from
the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland (Eire), India and China in recognition
of
those soldiers and workers who came from so far away to serve in the Great War.
We are a small
but caring company run by myself, James Power, and my wife Annette.
We thank you for visiting our website,
which we built
ourselves - and which we update every few days!
We accept payment by credit and debit card
See 'Contact Us' for more about
us
(we are based in Wimborne, Dorset, England)
James Power
.
about me.
A
member of
the
Guild of
Battlefield Guides
and
Western Front Association
last updated
2 August 2009
CONTACT US
Please note that the nature of what we do takes us away from our
office from time to time. Email is best, but if you phone and
we're not in then please leave a
message and we'll try and get back to you the same day as we pick up
emails and messages all the time whilst away. Thank you
for your understanding.
Click to send an email or type
jamespower@btinternet.com
01202 880
211
+44 1202 880 211
(from outside the UK)
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Clients who have
already booked
Clients who have
already booked with us (ONLY) and who need to contact us
urgently (amendments etc) should phone
07776 195
773
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What the national
quality press
have said about our tours
Click the logos...
The
only specialist WWI company
to appear in
Top Ten Battlefield Tours
2008
(Daily Telegraph 16 April 2008)
'Best Guided Tour 2009'
We are proud to be
the only battlefield tour company to have been selected
for
Vanity Fair's prestigious
'Best Guided Tour 2009' Award 2009
(April 2009 Issue)
The
only specialist WWI company to be recommended in the
Sunday Times
"52 Great
Weekends for 2008"
30 December 2007
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"Mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the first
world war with a self-drive tour of the Somme. Somme
Battlefield Tours (01202 880211) provides excellent
guide packs, with trench maps and superb commentaries."
also. . .
"In Search of
Wilfred Owen"
9
November 2008
"Somme Battlefield Tours offers . . .
meticulously researched notes"
The
only battlefield guide to be a finalist
and
'Highly Commended'
in this year's
'Paul Morrison World's Best Tour Guide'
competition organised by Wanderlust
travel magazine in
association with the
Daily Telegraph
The
only specialist WWI company to be
recommended in the Independent's
"Complete Guide to Great War Travel'
11 November 2006
"A special kind of field trip"
Copyright
© James Power 2009
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What people have said
about our Self-Drive tours...
(click
here to see all letters)
The German
Front Line revealed
after ploughing (Thiepval, Somme)
Click to enlarge
The battlefields
then and now. . .
.jpg)
Delville Wood, Somme
1916
Could those soldiers
who experienced the horrors of this wood have ever imagined that little children
would one day skip through the trenches of
yester-year, seemingly unaware of the legacy beneath their feet...
Remnants of the Great
War
still to be found today
(Warning - do not touch unexploded shells, grenades etc. If in any doubt
leave well alone)
Fricourt German
cemetery
(Somme)
The Basilica at
Albert
'then and now'
(click to enlarge)
.jpg)
11 November
1918
The end of the Great War?
YouTube link to
excellent recent BBC documentary
"The Somme -
From defeat to Victory"
(click image)
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