Battlefields Tours with Green Jersey

24/01/2025

Normandy 1944: a vicious battle that went far beyond the landing beaches. Our tour takes it all in to the closure of the Falaise picket at the end of August 1944.

30/11/2024

. The famous view of the Mulberry harbour at Arromanches. This and much much more on our tour from the beaches to the closure of the Falaise pocket. Now available for booking for June 2025. greenjerseycycling.co.uk

10/11/2024

Visit the beaches and battlefields of next year and see not only the invasion spots, but the fight through to the closure of the Falaise pocket at the end of August 1944.

30/05/2024

16/05/2024

This time last year we were approaching the Mohne dam having ridden from Scampton to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the dams raid. What a great trip that was. Sombre and respectful but a great group of riders.

10/05/2024

A wonderful morning leaving town today. Many of you will recognise this!

11/04/2024

A quick overnight stop in Verdun yesterday on our way home. An amazingly evocative and powerful place even though we’ve been many times. Join us for a memorable battlefield tour in Europe! We are a small, family run, tour operator offering high quality tours of the battlefields. Our aim is to give you the best tour possible, encompassing hotels, guiding, and places visited (both large and small, well-known and unknown). The personal element is paramount and we can tailor tours or include elements and stories of personal interest to you, our customer. www.greenjerseycycling.co.uk

30/01/2024

Join us for our D Day and Battle of Normandy tour in June, eighty years after the historic events. Our tour covers not just the famous beaches but tracks the battle inland to the closure of the Falaise pocket in late August 1945. We are a small, family run, tour operator offering high quality tours of
the battlefields. Our aim is to give you the best tour possible,
encompassing hotels, guiding, and places visited (both large and small,
well-known and unknown). The personal element is paramount and we can
tailor tours or include elements and stories of personal interest to you,
our customer. www.greenjerseycycling.co.uk

24/01/2024

Join us for our classic WW1 cycling tour at the end of April encompassing virtually the whole of the ‘British’ section, from Ypres, via Fromelles and Vimy to the Somme then over to Cambrai. By far the best way to experience the battlefields! It’s hard to believe the Great War started 110 years ago - where has the last decade gone?! We are a small, family run, tour operator offering high quality tours of the battlefields. Our aim is to give you the best tour possible, encompassing hotels, guiding, and places visited (both large and small, well-known and unknown). The personal element is paramount and we can tailor tours or include elements and stories of personal interest to you, our customer. www.greenjerseycycling.co.uk

07/01/2024

Some big anniversaries this year including the 110th of the outbreak of WW1. Join us in early summer for our Western Front cycling tour. We are a small, family run, tour operator offering high quality tours of the battlefields. Our aim is to give you the best tour possible, encompassing hotels, guiding, and places visited (both large and small, well-known and unknown). The personal element is paramount and we can tailor tours or include elements and stories of personal interest to you, our customer. www.greenjerseycycling.co.uk

11/11/2023

In the season of Remembrance one calls to mind not only the cemeteries so beautifully maintained, but also as poignantly the many roadside tributes in evidence more than a century on.

We are a small, family run, tour operator offering high quality tours of the battlefields. Our aim is to give you the best tour possible, encompassing hotels, guiding, and places visited (both large and small, well-known and unknown). The personal element is paramount and we can tailor tours or include elements and stories of personal interest to you, our customer.
www.greenjerseycycling.co.uk

08/11/2023

Next year marks the 80th anniversary of D Day, the largest amphibious operation ever. If you’ve ever wanted to visit, why not do so by bike and see not only the famous beaches but also follow the battle for Normandy through to the closure of the Falaise Gap (or Chambois Pocket, Corridor of Death in French and various other names). Great cycling, great sites, great history.

We are a small, family run, tour operator offering high quality tours of the battlefields. Our aim is to give you the best tour possible, encompassing
hotels, guiding, and places visited (both large and small, well-known and unknown). The personal element is paramount and we can tailor tours or@include elements and stories of personal interest to you, our customer.
www.greenjerseycycling.co.uk

07/11/2023

As Remembrance approaches we recall the crew of the British tank Deborah who perished at the Battle of Cambrai 106 years ago. The tank was discovered buried by a local historian and now sits proudly in her own wonderful museum. It is always as pleasure to visit on our ‘Great War Battlefields’ tour. We are a small, family run, tour operator offering high quality tours of the
battlefields. Our aim is to give you the best tour possible, encompassing
hotels, guiding, and places visited (both large and small, well-known and
unknown). The personal element is paramount and we can tailor tours or
include elements and stories of personal interest to you, our customer.
www.greenjerseycycling.co.uk

15/09/2023

80 years ago, the man who breached the Mohne Dam died on an aborted raid on the Dortmund Ems canal.

15/08/2023

Having charged past the tourist signs so often in the past, I made time to visit Chartwell today and how pleased I was. It is wonderful, so atmospheric. Afterwards the historical theme continued with a visit to David Maltby’s grave - the man who breached the Mohne dam and was killed short months later. Maltby, like Hopgood who was killed at the dam, was a fellow Matlburian. Then on to visit (thanks for the tip Julie) Baron Jean de Salys Longchamps, killed 80 years ago tomorrow, a Belgian nobleman best known for strafing the Gestapo headquarters in Brussels single handedly, having previously been refused permission to do just that. Now far a pint of something local and a good night’s sleep!

26/07/2023

The wreck of the 'Claude', abandoned at Dunkirk on 29 May 1940 and still visible at low tide

19/05/2023

Approaching the Mohne Dam from 60 feet altitude

16/05/2023

Warner Ottley’s crash site on the way to the Möhne dam, taking off 80 years ago today and crashing in the small hours of 17 May 1943. Hit by flak over Hamm he avoided the civilian population before he crashed on the edge of the wood. #617