..... After this delicious lunch, the bus took us to the Clairiere de l'Armistice a war memorial commemorating the armistice with the signature of the Germans that ended World War I in 1918. During World War II, Adolf Hitler deliberately chose the same location to sign the Second Armistice at Compiègne after Germany won the Battle of France.
You can visit four main attractions: the Glade of the Armistice with a statue of Ferdinand Foch, the Alsace-Lorraine Memorial, the Clearing of the Armistice, also called Rethondes Clearing, and a replica of a train car.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, which finally came with the signing of the Armistice in a railway carriage in the middle of a wood 80 kilometres north east of Paris on 11th November 1918.....
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12 Jun 2018
COMPIEGNE - ARMISTICE MEMORIAL WW I
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
11 Jun 2018
WEEKEND JUNE 9
I don't know why, but this year it seems to me that time flies by so quickly ! Now we are already beginning June ! Soon the school Summer Holidays will start and we probably will have a lot of tourists.
Meanwhile we had our monthly Facebook "Vivre à Waterloo" meeting and as usual it was very nice.
This time again the Café de Paris was chosen and I have to say they have real good food.
As it was quite warm we ordered a plate of Carpaccio which was excellent !
And here we are on the left Monique, Nicole, me and Bunny my little group of best friends. There were about 30 people maybe more, and we chatted and laughed the whole evening. Around 9 - 10 pm we all left.
That was about the only thing I did on Saturday, besides household stuff.
On Sunday I went to our market nearby and bought some tomatoes, potatoes and pieces of chicken, I want to make a salad for tonight.
I spent the whole afternoon outside, watching birds and cats and also a movie, it was quiet hot and there were dark clouds in the sky announcing again a thunderstorm.
It had never happened that since a couple of weeks there were thunderstorms in different parts of Belgium nearly every day. Above you see hail in a size of a marble, spectacular lightening, flooded streets and streets full of mud. Some people had just cleaned their house when the next storm arrived.
! We were really very lucky, besides some hail we had nothing in our part of Waterloo, but on the other end streets were flooded too !
Really unhappy are the insurance companies ! Now they have to pay !
Meanwhile we had our monthly Facebook "Vivre à Waterloo" meeting and as usual it was very nice.
This time again the Café de Paris was chosen and I have to say they have real good food.
As it was quite warm we ordered a plate of Carpaccio which was excellent !
And here we are on the left Monique, Nicole, me and Bunny my little group of best friends. There were about 30 people maybe more, and we chatted and laughed the whole evening. Around 9 - 10 pm we all left.
That was about the only thing I did on Saturday, besides household stuff.
On Sunday I went to our market nearby and bought some tomatoes, potatoes and pieces of chicken, I want to make a salad for tonight.
I spent the whole afternoon outside, watching birds and cats and also a movie, it was quiet hot and there were dark clouds in the sky announcing again a thunderstorm.
It had never happened that since a couple of weeks there were thunderstorms in different parts of Belgium nearly every day. Above you see hail in a size of a marble, spectacular lightening, flooded streets and streets full of mud. Some people had just cleaned their house when the next storm arrived.
! We were really very lucky, besides some hail we had nothing in our part of Waterloo, but on the other end streets were flooded too !
Really unhappy are the insurance companies ! Now they have to pay !
Responsible of the insurance company
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
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