Somme Battlefield Tours Ltd

Quite simply, nothing can beat the freedom of exploring the battlefields without the rigid timetable of a coach/minibus group dictating when and where you can travel. How frustrating must it must be to see the battlefields passing before your very eyes without being able to stop wherever you want to stop, for however long you want to spend, exploring what you want to explore. The freedom to explor

e the battlefields at your own pace is what I always wanted since I first visited the battlefields over 40 years ago, so after having personally guided over 300 conducted tours since 1997 as a professional guide I set about the long and detailed task of producing our self-drive guides to allow anyone to jump in their car to explore the battlefields for themselves, free of all the constraints imposed by coach tours. Our self-drive guides will equip you with everything you need to convert what will in most cases be French or Belgium countryside back to the time of the Great War (if one drives through the battlefields today without a detailed guide there is little or nothing to help you comprehend what happened where. This is one of the biggest frustrations experienced by casual visitors who arrives unprepared). So. . .in a nutshell our nationally acclaimed self-drive Somme and Ypres battlefield bespoke tours allow you to travel when you want for as long as you want. We arrange your hotel accommodation, Channel crossing (for UK travellers) and provide all the maps, directions etc you’ll need, and of course, our all-important Self-Drive Somme and/or Ypres Battlefield Guides - your ‘window to the past’. No other guide has so much detail and is so easy to follow! Please also note that our Self-Drive guides are only available when combined with hotel accommodation (and optional Channel crossing) and as such cannot be provided separately. We also regret that we are at present unable to assist with car hire.