FriendsofRomagne

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Thanks for your call to support Jean-Paul de Vries on your last episode. Actually he and I are both from Eindhoven And WW1 nerds. As we both grew up in the 80s we never met until 2006 or so when he still only had a private collection and there were very little tourist facilities. He sent me to a fantastic B&B.

The place looked very depopulated to me in 2003(need restaurant go to Verdun) but life and more tourism has returned since. Back then I met Dutch people who bought an old French house which had German WW1 newspapers for primitive isolation. Not to mention the dangerous military stuff still lying around. Note if you see a grenade it hasn’t exploded YET! (People who visited the area get this😈)

Go JP and if you can spare some, his self-made museum is awesome

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Hey I just saw the episode with Indy and a happy Jean Paul who runs the unique Romagne museum and gives great tips to any travellers.

Before he was there, there were basically no museums in the area (except for the cemetary info) and the are started to look like a podunk depopupulated place. Well it kind of is now again with the tourists gone but at least it has some tourist infrastructure.

I highly recommend visiting the area, less touristy than Verdun and lots of small ancient roads!

Best Regards and thanks to the TG Army from me as well!,

Marc