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4-6 rue du Vivier, Place Mc Auliffe, Bastogne, 6600, Belgium
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Monument to the 506th with the woods behind
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Generals Patton and McAuliffe
Bastogne and St Peters church from Monument
I will be spending a week in Vielsalm Belgium and one of my day trips will be a visit to Bastogne and the surrounding area. My plan is to load my bicycle on the train at Vielsalm and make the quick 10 minute ride to Gouvy. From Gouvy I will bike into the Foy and Bastogne region and spend the entire day cycling around the WW2 battle grounds. I really want to spend a lot of time in the area surrounding Bastogne and with a bicycle I think I will be able to do just that. I am looking for some out of the way cafes to eat lunch and maybe drink a beer. Any ideas would be great. Also I am open to the idea of staying a night in Bastogne or nearby. Can anyone give me some ideas on Bed and Breakfasts or small family run Inns.
The first of these 3 tracks paases through Bastogne and could help you to skip at least a few hills in the Belgian Ardennes ;-)
The other two are probably a bit out of the way ;-(
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Winseler-Grand-Duchy-of-Luxembourg-Bastogne-old-railway-track
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Waimes-Sankt-Vith-old-railway-track
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Liege-Tilff-Esneux-Comblain-au-Pont-Hamoir-Durbuy-l-Ourthe
If you are really interested in WW2 and in the Battle that happened around Bastogne, check out this website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge A jump in the past, trying to imagine how it was and how our guys felt, impossible !
A deep sense of proudness...
I picked up two books about the Battle of the Bulge before we left, neither of which I had time to read. The first book, A Tour of the Bulge Battlefield by William C.C. Cavanagh, is ideal if you have lots of time in the area as it's a guided tour through the battlefields. The other book, A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge by Charles B. Macdonald, my husband read while we were traveling and really enjoyed it but it's not for the casual history buff as it clocks in at 720 pages. I ordered both from Amazon, one from their used bookstore at a great price.
We watched Battle of the Bulge, a Henry Fonda movie, after we returned. It's a bit dated and you could tell that there wasn't a lot of attention to detail, the ending scenes looked like they were shot in a desert! And this was supposed to be Belgium in December/January! What I would recommend is one of the episodes of the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers also features the Battle of the Bulge and is excellent viewing.
Apart from its relation to WWII (the city was almost totally destroyed during the Battle of the Bulge), Bastogne today is a main shopping center for the area. 2 Minnesotians (2nd cousins, or how does one name the children of his father's cousin?) on top of the Memorial.
One of the most famous things to see in Bastogne is the MARDASSON; which is built in 1950 to remember the soldiers who died in 'The Battle of the Ardennes'(December 1944).
It is ca. 12 metres high and on the walls you can read about the Battle.
Place de MacAuliffeWe only stopped in Bastogne for a drink and something to eat, so I do not have real good photographs of the town.
Bastogne is a historical place, and in WW II heavy battles were fought here.
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