CASSINO WAR CEMETERY

WWII battles of Monte Cassino (Dec. 1943 - May, 1944).

After Pompeii I feel asleep on the bus to awake to Cabbage Patch yelling we have arrived to the Cassino War Memorial. Grabbing my cameras I stormed off the bus to enter a sauna. It was boiling hot, I could barely keep an eye open but this was something I was really keen on seeing. Forcing myself to walk over I tried opening my eyes to see I was standing at the Cassino War Memorials.

Monte Cassino is a rocky hill about 130 km south of Rome Italy. It is noted as the site where Benedict of Nursia established his first monastery.

The Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino) was a costly series of four battles during World War II. Without going into great detail about World War II, things started to stir when Japan invaded Manchuria in September 1931, capturing it from the Chinese. Two years later in 1933, the Nazi party came to power in Germany. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was starting to make moves to expand Germany eastwards.

The monastery, high on a peak overlooking the town of Cassino was destroyed by American bombers. Hence the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Cassino is the final resting place of Soldiers of the 2nd World War.

This poor soldier died on 13th of November 1943 at the age of 30. It's freaky how the day this guy died I was born. May he rest in peace.

The restored Abbey of Monte Cassino.

Walking around you cant help but feel sad and touched. Its amazing how many young soldiers were killed during the war.

We spend like 15 minutes here before Cabbage Patch rounds us up like cattle. We stroll back onto the bus until we hit an Autogrill.

We storm out of the bus to grab lunch. Don’t ask me why but Lucy and I started obsessing over these two freaks, hence we had to get a photo!

That better not be us in 30 years time!

Next Stop - Rome...