Trip to Ypres
Member rating: No Rating | Words: 901 | Submitted: Sat Oct 04 2008
On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:
Sanctuary Woods Museum and Trenches I think Sanctuary Woods Museum is a very good tourist attraction. There are several reasons for this, firstly the exhibits in the museum, but mainly, I suspect, because the trench lines behind the museum give a very good feel for what it must have been like to experience the mud and misery of the trenches in the salient. The trenches were the main site because they were huge, the tunnels were deep and you could feel how the soldiers lived there. The trenches are reached by passing through the museum. The museum contains a large number of leftovers and artefacts from the Great War, including weapons, personal effects and photographs. Worth special mention are the stereoviews. There are a number of steroviewers located on benches as you enter the museum, and these contain many views, some of which are extremely gruesome. Stereoviews used to be...

