Lest we forget: new journeys to Ypres and Arras

Breaking Travel News - Nov 6, 2026

As the nation falls silent this Remembrance Sunday (8 November) and on Armistice Day (11 November), Tripsmiths is inviting travellers to go beyond the wreath and the two minutes’ silence and stand on the ground where history was made. The expert-led travel company has launched two new five-day tours of the Western Front, to the Ypres Salient and the Arras battlefields. Both will travel in a significant year: 2027 marks 110 years since the Battle of Arras in April 1917 and the Third Battle of Ypres, better known as Passchendaele, which began that July. 2027 dates have also just been released for their best-selling Second World War tour with historian Guy Walters, with 2027 dates for Gallipoli and Troy to follow.

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