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Sunday, August 26, 2007

Bastogne

Today we drove through the beautiful Luxembourg part of the Ardennes to Bastogne, besieged by German troops during the Battle of the Bulge, defended by the US 101st Airborne Division. There is an excellent war museum there, with a film of the battle and lots of military artefacts of the time. Well worth a visit for anyone interested in WW2 history.
We had an interesting salad 'avec lardons' and an unusual/superb white wine outside a restaurant in the main street of the town. The central square is named after General McAuliffe who was acting commander of the US troops defending the town. He is reputed to have replied 'Nuts' to a German demand for surrender but I once heard that this is a euphemism for the language he actually used.

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