22  Bishops boys, along with two members of staff, returned to Cape Town on the 8^th July following a memorable 12-day tour of the cultural and historical sites of Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Days (and nights) were long with great distances covered in a relatively short space of time. It was unanimous that the multi-hour bus journeys and sore feet as the result of much walking and exploration of cities, towns and one-time battlefields, were small prices to pay for all that was seen and experienced on tour. Indelible memories, of which there were many, included laying a wreath at Delville Wood in remembrance of the 112 Old Diocesans who gave their lives in the Great War; walking along beautiful Omaha Beach (scene of the D-Day landings in 1944); observing, first-hand, the grand opulence of the Palace of Versailles, famed Hall of Mirrors included, during a guided tour; being mesmerized by the site of 15000 crosses, all immaculately maintained, at Douaumont, that mark the final resting place of French soldiers killed during the Battle of Verdun (there can be very few memorials that encapsulate the sheer scale of human tragedy wrought by World War One as shown at Douaumont) and viewing many of Paris’s most celebrated attractions care of a cruise of the Seine River. It should be added that the members of the tour party proved to be thoroughly outstanding ambassadors for Bishops and South Africa.