Ok, I Think It's Time to Do The European Milsurp Tour.

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WHO'S IN? I would seriously like to throw the idea around of a "EUROPEAN MILSURP AND WINE TOUR"

You Milsurp gunnutters got me all worked up about all these stashes of milsurps across Europe. Why don't we see if an organized two week trip to Europe would be feasable.

I mean we could all meet at Person International and hit Frankfurt. From there it's on the Bannhof to the mid evil town of Oberndorf to get started at the Mauser factory tour.

Then off to all points Europe via the train. Beers, schnitzal, milsurps, visit gun stores, see battle fields, Poland, Former Yugoslavia, Hungrey, Czech... etc

We could put all our collective knowledge together to create the Milsurp tour from Hell.....

Say next year?????:runaway:
 
Imperial War Museum in London and Musée de l'Armée in Paris a must. Side trip to Normandy and Vimy to visit all those honored Canadian ghosts.
 
And Dieppe....

I could spend months in France just touring old battlefields and visiting graves. I'd even make a special trip to Russia to see Stalingrad.
 
Woolich, outside London. Royal Artillery Museum.... You can get there by bus

or

If possible, Visit the EME training school outside Bristol! Very nice.
 
Guys, a joint tour will have to be focused and reasonable. Can;t see everything in one trip ;)

And while we're voting, I think The Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden is a MUST.
 
I second the War museum in London, its simply huge.
For small arms, the Danish war musem in Copenhagen (if you recall I posted pictures 1 year ago) is awe inspireing.

I think some of the Italian battlefields would be interesting. Ortona anyone?
 
The Toejhus Museum, Denmark, has one of the best and largest collection of personal arms in the world, from ancient cross bows, ancient canons, tanks, airplanes to modern arms, as well as the wild night life of Copenhagen :)

Bring money !
 
Yes, its an amazing place. Growing up in Copenhagen and going to the Toejhus museum over the years is a sure way of raising a gun nut.

Heres a picture in case you are wondering just how emense a small arms collection can be:

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row upon row upon row....
 
Tak, Sigismund for the pictures. I hav'nt been at the Toejhus Museum for many years. The glass around the long arms appears to be new.

One of the curators of Toejhus Museum once told me, that once a group of german veterans and operators of the famous 88 canon came for a "visit" to the Toejhus Museum, and in no time, these former german soldiers were sitting and operating the 88, as well as shouting to each other, orders in german of how to operate the 88. The museum staff had hard time in stopping these nostalgic, former operators of the 88 canon :)
 
The imperial war museum at the old Duxford air base has an awsome display, if you like the old warbirds i highley recommend, go when it's not to busy and if you ask politely they will allow you to touch the planes, i got to sit in a spitfire which is my favorite warbird and let's just say my wife got a little jeleous as she thought i found a new girl. They even have an outstanding tank museum at the end of the runway that was a highlight of my last trip over, those Tiger tanks are something else. They will actually take the tanks out and play around. If you go, expect to spend the whole day.
 
I think that Juno Beach is a must.
There a fellow in Sheffield with a PhD in history who gives two day tours of Juno beach.
I'd save the wine-tasting and tours of stately chateaux for the times when Her Ladyship tags along. I'd like to have a testosterone event.
Just my tuppence.
 
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Munster Tank museum (lots of guns)
Military Tech Museum Koblenz (every gun ever made...5 stories)

A few days with metal detectors in Poland, Estonia...Latvia
 
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