The second day is a nice 35 km long ride on hilly ground south of Ypres where on the 7th of June 1917 the Battle of Messines Ridge unfolded.

• We leave La Howarderie for Ploegsteert where Winston Churchill served in 1916, the Memorial and -menthe site where the Christmas Truce took place in 1914. German and British soldiers played a game of football in the no-men's land.
• In Messines we vsit the Irish Memorial Park and NZ Division Memorial. We ride on the rolling fields and we continue to Lone Tree Crater and Wijtschate.
• The impressive mine craters at Hill 60 and Hill 59 ( Caterpillar Crater) testify to the underground warfare and the work of the tunnelling companies .
• Downhill it goes to the Menin Gate, the memorial to 55.000 missing soldiers. We c/I at the hotel before we attend at 8:00 PM http://www.lastpost.be/en/home