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Ypres
Travel Blogs from Ypres, Belgium
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Last Meal at Ypers
We is Saturday morning and we are about to head off to Arris for the next part of our tour. We've spent hte last two days traveling around the battle fields that surround Ypers. It amazing the effort that is spent on maining each and every ...
Ypres
We went on a guided tour of Ypres Salient including a museum that still has trenches used in the first world war in the grounds and many monuments, battlefields and cemeteries. The tour was with over the top tours and was really helpful. We saw the ...
Ieper is Finally Quiet
... Cloth Hall is the In Flanders Fields Museum. The exhibits there contain a very thorough description of the battles around Ypres and the Ypres Salient. There were many exhibits, artifacts and displays for viewing. After the museum we took a walking tour ...
Dec 01, 2010
In Flanders Fields the poppies grow..
... , not a graveyard where people are laid to rest. It all seems a little surreal now - just a bit of turf in the middle of Belgium surrounded by a few houses and bars. Hill 62 adjacent to Sanctuary Wood Cemetary off the Menin road has a memorial to the ...
Sites from the Great War
Our first day in Belgium was to be a day of side trips. Our first stop was the town of Ypres. Ypres was hit particularly hard in WWI and is the home of a very good museum -- In Flanders Fields. It is a typical museum, with visual ...
Polygon Wood,Tyne Cot and Menin Gate
... CO were both killed from the same bullet - the origin of which is not known. The high ground was also a former Belgium Shooting Range. We did lunch here in a Café aptly named 'Hill 60' - we had toasties mainly and Malani and ...
Day 27 - Albert - Somme Battlefields - Ypres
... to Ypresarriving just before 6pm and found some lovely ladies at the Tourist office who helped us find a very good B&B just out of Ypres which is run by the lovely Sonja. After settling in and putting some warm clothes on we headed back in to Ypres to ...
It is Monday we must be in Belguim
... them' It was a great palce for reflection at the sacrifice made by these young men some not much older than my girls'. On to Ypres for more food ..... then we headed to the Menin Gate for 8pm. This is a very imnpressive memorial where they have listed all ...
Emotional day in Ypres
Today the band parents followed the band on a 3-hour drive to Ypres in Flanders, Belgium where they played at the War Memorial and sang ín the cathedral. Wow, what an emotional day. We went to the John MacRae cemetary (he was a Canadian field ...
History, with a side of Beef Stew of Death
In the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium, you will find a little place called Ypres. When I first stepped out of the train station in Ypres, my first thought was "Oh no! They're speaking Dutch! I forgot to review my basic phrases in ...
First Night on the Western front
We had our first taste of the Western Front last night at the Memin Gete and the heard the last post, very moving. The trip from Brussels to Ypres was about an hour travel. I'll post more later today when we arrived ...
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