Anzac Day
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@Crucial briefly, if you like mate, but what do the battle fields look like now? Still a landscape where you can see what happened and where etc?
Is there a "feeling " that something full on happened there?I hope you don't mind me butting in mate, when I was on the Somme fields 2 years ago and went on an amazing tour from a local guide who was a British ex-military. There were still signs of conflict, pillboxes and most notably a giant grassed in crater that royal engineers had blown up when it was on the front in WW1. I stood on the field made famous in the warhorse movie, and spent a very emotional time walking at the NZ cemetery at Caterpillar Valley. I also went to Normandy but felt the Somme on a much more personal level. I'd highly recommend you do it if you can
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If you are still in Ieper, the grave of Dave Gallaher in Nine Elms cemetery near Poperinge is well-worth the visit, as are Tyne Cot Cemetery and the National Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 near Zonnebeke.
If you are travelling into France, Beaumont Hamel, the Thiepval Memorial, Wellington Quarry near Arras, Le Memorial de Verdun and the vast Douaumont ossurary and cemetery near Verdun are all very poignant.
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Can someone explain about the events this year please. I have lost sight of that while being a bit busy recently. Are some usual commemorations being canned?
Yes, police have asked many to not hold events. Our local RSA normally have a parade, cancelled this year
That utterly sucks, as you say, one lone Ozzie nutter should not make us change our ways. Unless there is actual intel, carry on as normal. I guess NZ authorities just doesn't know what to do with terrorism, and is over reacting - it wouldn't stop similar in UK or USA
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Can someone explain about the events this year please. I have lost sight of that while being a bit busy recently. Are some usual commemorations being canned?
Yes, police have asked many to not hold events. Our local RSA normally have a parade, cancelled this year
Dear departed ANZACs
You know how you gave your lives for our freedom, well look what we've done with your ultimate sacrifice.
One lone fuckwit has got us all cowering at home on your day because apparently it's too dangerous to head out of a morning.
Sorry diggers
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If you are still in Ieper, the grave of Dave Gallaher in Nine Elms cemetery near Poperinge is well-worth the visit, as are Tyne Cot Cemetery and the National Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 near Zonnebeke.
If you are travelling into France, Beaumont Hamel, the Thiepval Memorial, Wellington Quarry near Arras, Le Memorial de Verdun and the vast Douaumont ossurary and cemetery near Verdun are all very poignant.
Nine Elms is on the list straight after breakfast tomorrow. Did Tyne Cot, Polygon Wood (nicest spot), Passchendaele (cool new section in the park with small garden memorials for each country eg the NZ one has flax and pohutukawa). A huge Pou carved in Rotorua has arrived and is about to be lifted into place for ANZAC day this year.
Found Messines the most interesting of the day.
The ‘In Flanders Fields’ museum/display in Ieper was good too. Type of place where @NTA would spend all day and get in trouble with the wife and kids
Won’t go down to Arras and others. Just doing some Flanders this time, and Les Quesnoy before trying to watch Peter Sagan ride the pave in the latter sectors of the P-R then race off to the eurotunnel.
For anyone that hasn’t done this pilgrimage it is well worth doing and the beer is excellent -
@taniwharugby said in Anzac Day:
@NTA told mine as soon as they are out, we are selling our house and buying a motorhome!
Nice! Would like to do that around NZ and then Europe around TdF time.
As of next year, both kids will be in high school (in NSW Year 7 of 12 is high school commencement, where most kids turn 12 or 13) and therefore we don't have to burn part of our annual leave on minding the little bastards. I like taking our holidays out of school break in order to avoid peak pricing. Bloody rort.
Once ours are finished their high school exams I think we're free, or at least free enough.
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@taniwharugby said in Anzac Day:
@NTA told mine as soon as they are out, we are selling our house and buying a motorhome!
Did you consider telling them nothing and just letting them see a for sale sign on the lawn?
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@taniwharugby said in Anzac Day:
@NTA told mine as soon as they are out, we are selling our house and buying a motorhome!
Did you consider telling them nothing and just letting them see a for sale sign on the lawn?
Along with all their shit in boxes?