But on my way, I decided to stop at the Vimy Ridge Memorial just outside of Arras In northern France. When I got off the train I found a Cab that would take me to Vimy
The driver's name was Bruno and he was Awesome gave a little tour around town then drove me out the site
He a book with signatures of all the Canadians he had driven to Vimy (I forget to get a Photo with him and of the book).
When I arrive at the Vimy site the 1st thing I saw was the Museum Entrance
When I entered the Museum I was greeted but a woman from Ottawa, This was her 3rd summer working at Vimy she provided with a friendly explanation of the area and informed me there was a Tour of the tunnels starting shortly.
I signed up for the tour and went exploring in the museum
once I was done in the Museum it was time to go explore some of the tunnels the Canadians dug
in a 2 year period they hand dug almost 30miles of tunnels, about 30ft below the trenches
After exploring the tunnels I went to explore the trenches
I thought I had more photos of the trenches but I guess not
Now it was time to make my way over to the monument, it was about a 20min walk from the trenches.
As I approached the sheer size of the monument was amazing
The pillars are about 27meter tall and the front wall is another 7meters make the whole memorial almost 35meters tall
and it sits on top of Hill 145(which is 145meters tall)
From the top of the hill, you can see all the way to Belgium
I tried to take as many photos of the monument as I could
Here are some of the better ones.
As I was getting ready to leave A group of Scottish history students and their teacher arrived
I kinda eavesdropped on the history lesson he was giving I think I learned more from them 15min lesson about the Canadians contributions to the war than I did in all my years in school
If you would like to learn more about the monument
here is a good wiki article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_National_Vimy_Memorial
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