Tanks in Town, Mons (Belgium), August 30th/31st 2008

[Alex van de Wetering]

I'll arrive on Friday, too. I don't know any interesting locations in Belgium or the Netherlands. May be our Dutch friends can help?

I also hope to be there again this year. Lasy year I visited on saterday in the Bois Brulee. Lot's to see there, both armour as well as soft-skin. In 2006 I was in Mons on the Sunday. My experience was that it was fairly easy to take the car and "meet" the tour at two or three occasions. One was near a railroad crossing and another at a street corner, where the tanks had to drive through a very narrow street, which got the M26 trapped!

Museum-wise, I would recommend "Overloon" (Libertypark.nl) and the Airborne musuem in Oosterbeek in Holland. Maybe also the museum in Best, near Eindhoven. In Belgium there is of course lots to see in the Ardennes region, several interesting monuments and museums. I would recommend the Diekirch museum in Luxembourg.

Alex


Alex