Tough & Emotional Return To Motorhome Life Europe
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- In this week's motorhome life video we meet up with fellow van lifers in Lowerstoft, UK before heading back to France. We discuss our three-year plan of traveling through France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and eventually Turkey, exploring different regions and spending time in each country. We visit historical sites such as the Dunkirk bunker and the Trench of Death in Belgium, reflecting on the sacrifices made during the wars. We end with a visit to the memorial cemetery in Aras, France, where Alison's relative is honored, evoking emotions of sadness and humility.
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Fascinating and moving. All those names. Unbelievably sad. Great coverage of the memorial and an insight into the trenches. Thank you.
Hey Lisa,
It was horrendously sad. Seeing personal possessions like the wallet that had been embroidered with the gentleman's name and that presumably of his lady, makes them individual people, not just one of a large number. The hardest part was the grave of a gentleman, whose adult daughter, whom he'd never met, had her ashes interred with him, so that they could be together at last. It really hits it home.
Hope it can be of some use in your history lesson with Alex. 😉😘😘
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
What can I say, just very moving. xx
It was. We were both in tears.💜🤟
Great episode guys, seeing the trenches and memorials really brings home just how horrific the 2 world wars were.
We found it a lot more emotional than we thought we would. Being there really highlighted the terrible conditions the soldiers lived in. As for the number of names on the walls, that really upset us. These events should never be forgotten! Thanks for your comment Steve 🤟🏼♥️
Thank you for this, we have made a point of taking a day or two, from our holiday time, just to visit various war cemeteries whenever we are in England, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands, to pay homage to all those who fought and lost their lives, so that we may have the life we have today. The atrocities they must have seen and endured. We have visited Ypres, Menin Gate, Tyne Cot, Aldershot, Bayeux, Beny-Mere, Arras, Vimy, Caen, Ortano, Valle de Cuelgamuros (controversial though it is), and too many others, big and small, to mention. It is overwhelming to see the names and numbers of soldiers who perished
Good morning Paulette,
We have several more on our list to visit, although probably just for us, than for the channel. We were gobsmacked but just how many military cemeteries are dotted all over the landscape, of all nationalities, as we drive around. It is still hard to comprehend.
Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
Another informative and this time emotional video. I visited the trenches at Diskmuide many years ago (before i met Sarah). The visitor centre looks new and informative. I visited the Yser museum in the tall 'Peace' Tower in the centre of the town. The whole region is so interesting and the size and number of cemeteries gives you a real sense of the massive scale of suffering and human loss. It is when you are faced with images and stories of individuals that it becomes even more emotional.
Good morning Barry and Sarah,
We saw the 'Peace' tower, you can't really miss it, but unfortunately it was closed the day we went.
The trench area is owned by the Ministry of Defence. The visitor centre was really interesting and gives a great viewing platform of the whole site. Being MOD, they constantly have a member of the military on site to oversee things, plus a civilian. The two people that we met were both lovely and very informative. As it was a quiet and soggy day, it allowed us to have a good chat with them. It was a shame that we hadn't visited 2 weeks before, as the surrounding area had been flooded, due to the excessive amount of rain and would have given us the "full" experience of how it would have looked at the time. 💜🤟
Careful of that blown sand in your ice cream!
Great vid guys😊
What's a little bit of extra crunch here and there..?!? 🤷🏼♀️🤣😂🤣💜🤟
Congrats for the video, I think you will like the Braganza Castle in Portugal, and driving there the "Camino de Santiago" Basque Countries, Cantabria, Asturias, and Galicia, their cities, their villages, their natural surroundings, and their amazing traditional, and modern gastronomy. Do not miss each traditional dish, they are also usually cheap in non-touristic places, plus Catalonia's mountain gastronomy, is also great, "canelons" cannelloni with béchamel there, are excellent.
Hi Miguel,
We will be sure to try as many of the local dishes as we can.
Thanks for watching.
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
Ah guys it was an absolute pleasure to meet and spend time with you both ❤ So glad we got to do it before your Europe adventures begin.
As for this video, that was very humbling and makes us grateful for everything we have. I feel neither Stephen nor I know as much about these wars as we should beyond the basics - which is perhaps shameful but I suspect is true for most of us. But visiting places like this certainly makes it all a reality and is definitely something I'd like to do when returning to France and Belgium. The sheer depth of those wars is incredible, every place has its own story and what's frightening of course is they didn't happen all that long ago, not really.
Safe travels guys and hope you've since avoided the wind!
P.S - I noticed a comment above about Bragança in Portugal (presumably that one anyway), and can only wholeheartedly recommend it too. A great free aire by the castle, and we found the food in town reasonably priced too
It was great spending time with you both. We look forward to doing it again, somewhere warmer. 😉😍😘
Neither of us know as much as we should about the wars. My (Alison) history preference is for much more ancient history. Darren is more into modern history. I think everyone should visit one of the large military cemeteries at some point in their life. There are hundreds of smaller ones as you drive around France and Belgium. I was never that bothered about going, other than wanting to visit the grave of my grandfathers brother, Arthur, who was just 19 years old. We always assumed he was buried in Pozieres, rather than commemorated on the wall, meaning his body was never found or identified. There were so many of them on the remembrance walls, or gravestones marked as "Known unto God" when they had been recovered but unidentified. It was so sad. There was one that really got me, that we obviously didn't want to show. It was a grave of a gentleman, who fell near Arras, together with a smaller identifier of the ashes of his adult daughter, who he'd never met, as she was born 8 months after he died. It really made each name an individual too. It makes you think about each of their circumstances and who they had waiting for them to come home. It affected my grandfather greatly, he was only 15 when Arthur died.
As for Bragança in Portugal, it probably won't surprise you that it is already marked on our list of places to visit. Most likely added after we saw the video of you visiting there. We added several thanks to your European vacay. 😬
Hopefully we'll get to visit them all ourselves. 🤟💜😘
@@findingxanadulife I can understand why you wouldn't want to show that part, some things are a bit too powerful and hard hitting and that example really does emphasise the horrors and reality of real people, with families, dying in tragic circumstances, away from home 😥 As do the names listed, as you say. It must've been very emotional to see your grandfather's brother's name, and no wonder he was so affected afterwards, 15 is beyond belief 😟 We will try to visit one of these places when next over - perhaps as a first or last stop in the spring.
It was so emotional. There was a sole German soldier in the Pozieres cemetery. You can't help but feel bad for him not being laid to rest with his comrades, but I guess war made them all comrades, regardless of which side they were fighting for. You guys are sensitive types, like us, but I challenge even the hardest hearted person to go and not be moved by it. We will visit more, but we need to do them in short bursts, so we don't get overwhelmed.
I would say that you would "enjoy" the visit, but that is not the right word and I'm not sure what the appropriate word for it would be, but you should definitely visit. 😘💜🤟
It was so emotional. There was a sole German soldier in the Pozieres cemetery. You can't help but feel bad for him not being laid to rest with his comrades, but I guess war made them all comrades, regardless of which side they were fighting for. You guys are sensitive types, like us, but I challenge even the hardest hearted person to go and not be moved by it. We will visit more, but we need to do them in short bursts, so we don't get overwhelmed.
I would say that you would "enjoy" the visit, but that is not the right word and I'm not sure what the appropriate word for it would be, but you should definitely visit. 😘💜🤟
Have a nice and save Trip to Turkey, your neighbor in Leysin
Hi Jörg..!
We noticed from the top of the mountain cable car, that you had left. Sorry we didn't get to say goodbye. It was lovely chatting to you and thanks for leaving us the comment.
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟