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Belgian Battlefields
... This site now is now shared with a few sheep quietly going about their business. Next stop was Bedford House Cemetery and again we walked over this extensive commemorative location. This cemetery has 6 separate sections and therefore covers quite a considerable area. We could find few signs of the large chateau that was originally located at this site. The small stream at the road end of the cemetery was running strongly after recent rain and we had further showers while we visited. ...
Never Thought I'd Miss a Port-a-potty
... for touring this city was impeccable, really. From what I hear, Ghent has quite the night life during much of the year, so this festival just multiplied it. As we walked through the streets, urinals were everywhere, trash was still being cleaned by vacuums big enough to suck up a toddler, and the last of the drunks hitch-hiked out of the city center.
We planned to meet the Olsons at 8am at one of the main churches, ...
Chocolate + Beer + Frites + Mussels = Brugge
... to Amsterdam. We weren’t going to get picked up till about 1pm. We dumped our bags and went for a walk. We walked around town again, past some windwills (there is 4 of them here) which is more than I have seen in Amsterdam many years ago. We met our guide at 1pm and we went on the bus leaving Belgium and going to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The countryside in Belgium is pretty and one day we would like to come back and explore more of this beautiful ...
A day in Ieper
... existed since at least the 1st century CE, as history records it being raided by the Romans. It grew in size and importance and became a textile center in the 13-16th centuries, during which time the towering Cloth Hall was built.
And then World War I happened. Ieper stood directly in the path of the Schlieffen Plan, Germany's strategy for winning the war. Once this plan had failed, the city stood between the Germans ...
'I died in hell, they called it Passchendaele'
... well.
That evening, I went to a restaurant the name of which I can't immediate recall and had a delicious salad. I decided to try to not use English, and the salad was about the only thing I thought I could pronounce half right. Luckily, it was pretty good, albeit a tad heavy on the raw herring. I got by though, I went back to the hotel afterwards and spent the evening catching up on my Facebookery.
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