Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast AT#985 - Travel to Northern France
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Feb 28, 2026 Craig Anderson, travel writer who maps itineraries and history, guides a loop through Northern France and a day in Flanders. He highlights WWI and WWII battlefields, medieval walled towns and gothic cathedrals. Hear about coastal chalk cliffs, Boulogne-sur-Mer as a base, battlefield museums, and culinary and coastal delights.
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Private Tour Through Flanders Fields
- Craig spent a day on a private Flanders battlefield tour visiting Essex Farm, gas attack sites, and multiple cemeteries.
- He used Flanders Battlefield Tours and appreciated having a guide explain monuments, bunkers, and the In Flanders Fields poem location.
Cemetery Styles Reveal Different Remembrance
- The Commonwealth and German cemeteries reflect different postwar practices and narratives.
- Commonwealth graves remain in Flanders; German sites often use large communal monuments, showing contrasting remembrance styles.
Visit Dunkirk Beaches And Museum
- Do visit Dunkirk's beaches and the Operation Dynamo museum to understand the 1940 evacuation.
- Craig found the museum compact, well-explained, and presented in English and French, ideal for context after walking the beaches.