City Breaks?

[Ratman]

[emoji15] just had a quick scen at that [emoji33] yeah pretty hard hitting to see.
We’ve reached a good point in our lives now (the boss and me) which is going to give us the chance to get away more regularly, and these are the sort of interesting visits we’re gona start off with. We have a huge love of old historical buildings and parklands etc.

[felixthelogchopper]

30 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Yeah I know, only ragging?

 

We have a place near here called Oradour Sur Glane http://www.oradour.org/

 

Site of a Nazi massacre, sort of a local attraction, in a weird way.

Am I right in thinking that the massacre was committed against the wrong village of Oradour?

[Mick Dempsey]

Not as far as I’m aware, Oradour sur Vayre is even closer to us, lots of stories about revenge about partisan assasinations of German officers, hidden gold etc. AFAIK no one has the definitive answer.

[josharb87]

We were in Tallin in the end of april this year @PeteB, lovely clean city, great weather, beautiful old town, friendly people, some stunning modern buildings that actually fitted in very well. We were there just for a day (departed stockholm fri eve by ferry, arrived saturday morning, left tallin saturday eve, home sunday morning, so just a day actually in Tallin, just wandering about. A long weekend with some structure of what to do would be ace

[stihlmadasever]

1 hour ago, Ratman said:

Anyone done the trip to Warsaw including the trips to krakow and auschwitz? Really fancy this and its history.

 

We went to auschwitz in 2nd year in high school.Even at age 14 it hits you hard.Very strange,eerie atmosphere at that place....

[Ratman]

Went to Prague on a stag do about 10yrs ago, if i remember rightly there is a building towards the bottom of central walk in the new town below the clock, where you can walk round and read these plaques etc on the deaths of those caught up in ww2, dont remember it fully cos i was shat faced at the time ? but want to go back and see it all again in a sane state of mind, also want to go in to the old town, only got as far as Charles Bridge whilst we were zigg zagging around. Things ya do when your young and all that.

[Ratman]

Yeah I know, only ragging[emoji38]
 
We have a place near here called Oradour Sur Glane http://www.oradour.org/
 
Site of a Nazi massacre, sort of a local attraction, in a weird way.

You live / work in france then Mick or is it a holiday retreat?! Me and my naivety assumed it would be in N/E, Eastern France, closer to the border of neighbouring Germany, not central towards western France. ??‍♂️

[David Cropper]

21 minutes ago, Ratman said:

You live / work in france then Mick or is it a holiday retreat?! Me and my naivety assumed it would be in N/E, Eastern France, closer to the border of neighbouring Germany, not central towards western France. ??‍♂️

One theory according to the book was that partisans blew a local bridge and the SS Tank Regiment decided enough was enough and took action to punish the village. They rounded everyone up including waiting for the commuters to arrive home,  then the massacre started. Horrible place.  I was working in the village, about 500 metres from the site, last month. It's a very sobering place to visit. 

[Ratman]

One theory according to the book was that partisans blew a local bridge and the SS Tank Regiment decided enough was enough and took action to punish the village. They rounded everyone up including waiting for the commuters to arrive home,  then the massacre started. Horrible place.  I was working in the village, about 500 metres from the site, last month. It's a very sobering place to visit. 

Just watched a couple of Youtube videos about it! [emoji37] nasty way to leave the earth! Thinking about it, now that you guys are pointing more and more out, i bet there are a lot more “war suffered” places along the eastern boundaries of france / brussels relating to ww2.

[felixthelogchopper]

23 minutes ago, Ratman said:

Just watched a couple of Youtube videos about it! nasty way to leave the earth! Thinking about it, now that you guys are pointing more and more out, i bet there are a lot more “war suffered” places along the eastern boundaries of france / brussels relating to ww2.

2nd SS Panzer 'Das Reich' were harassed all the way from their base in Montauban to Normandy by Allied Forces including FFI and SOE.