Charlotte'S House Ypres
int-Jansstraat 14 Ypres, West Flanders, B-8900, Belgium
TravelPod Member ReviewsCharlotte'S House Ypres
“Location Location”
What an excellent house. Everything on hand and so close to the city. Wonderful B&B!!
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this B&BCharlotte'S House Ypres
Feline Fever
Arrived in Ypres (Ieper, Wipers) mid afternoon after a short stroll up the motorway. Gotta love the roads over here - even the worst road is better than our best roads. Traffic behaves itself, trucks aren't scary and everyone knows how to stay right unless overtaking - although they could use their blinkers more often.
Charlotte's B&B …
The Last Post
Menin Gate has the names of 55,000 soldiers who died in this area and have no known grave. Every night, the volunteers from the Last Post Assoc hold a ceremony at the gate at 8pm and play the Last Post.
They play rain, hail or shine. This evening it was rain! They have not missed a night since WWI apart from when the Nazis occupied the …
Lazy Day
Went on a fruitless hunt for a physio today - walked about 5 kms but both were closed. Damn phone doesn't work and as it's all in French so I can't figure out why. I can't even call the "free help line".
Went to the Last Post ceremony again and had a long chat to the resident artist Soren Hawkes. He is a British historian living and …
Behind the lines
Margaret and Steve were picked up by friends and taken to Waregem, leaving me to make plans to visit Brugge with my mate Phil who is arriving from UK. Unfortunately my phone wasn't working (see Rant) and by the time I got it sorted the day was more than half over. I was in Armentieres in France and once again frustrated by the lack of tourist info …
Close to home
Today we did an Ieper and surrounds day. Went to visit the Hill 62 museum which was an impressive collection of original artifacts and stuff they had personally dug out of their back yard. Their grounds had been left as trenches to give the tourists an idea of what trench life might have been like. No chance! Unless you make people sleep in the …

