Final Euro Trip Tally....

[ChrisSavaglio]

I appreciate all the suggestions everyone gave for places to visit. I'm leaving for the States on Thursday, so today was my final non-work day to go out and explore.

I managed to put a total of about 3500km on my rental in the 3 weeks I was here.....

So, the final list of all the OT places I visited.....

Speyer Technical Museum

Sinsheim Technical Museum

Brussels Army Museum (where I stumbled on the huge model show and somehow managed to loose a ton of Euro, but found lots of resin.....)

Brussels Auto World

Hermeskeil Air Museum

Verdun, museum and the surounding battlefields and memorials
Argonne Forrest, US Cemetary, US monuements

Argonne museum (in the town where Louis XVI was arrested, but that's off topic)

Vauquois Hill where the german trenches are still there..you can even walk up and down sections. They're marked off what line of defense they are. This is where both sides used mines to try to kick each other off the hill. The center is a network of huge craters...unbelievable.

I also stopped at a number of random monuements and sites along the way. Pretty wild that you can just pull off just about anywhere in the Argonne on the roads and find trenches and impact craters.

And finally, today, I went to the armour museum run by the German military in Koblenz. Pretty cool, but not well known. Lots of prototype armor, a/c and other odd ball stuff. Tons of small arms and artillery, much of which from the great war including a handful of a/c machine guns.

Thanks to all for their help in making this a good trip. I think I'll be back out for a couple weeks in Jan or Feb, so I'll have to find more places to go to....

Chris