Villa 't Zonneke
Travel Blogs from Knokke-Heist
Bye Bye Brugge... Hello London!
... br> It was really nice to catch up with Jamie, as we did become fast friends in Paris and he came along to Amsterdam as well. It's funny because to me that seemed like it was ages ago, but it was just exactly one month since we had first met. Jamie made me a really nice home cooked meal (I have been spoiled rotten with lovely home cooked meals since I left the ship) and we caught up over a bottle of wine.
So happy and grateful for all the friends I have in my life old and new x
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Finaly in holland. And back on the briny too.
... with ocean going ships of around 300 meters long traveling at 10 knots zipping up and down the channel. that was a bit hairy but when we finaly exited the canal in to proper ocean it was more like entering a 4 lane highway full of speeding trucks, on a moped. Antwerp is one of the busiest ports in the world and we have to cross the main channel. Oh the joys. But we ...
Running errands- like a normal/real person :)
... You never really know how you are going to feel until it happens. Odd to come to such a realization over a sweater, however, when I finally found one I liked it was so comforting to have....
After the hot chocolates (which everyone should try in Belgium they are soooo delicious) we went back to the apartment, where Jaey and Djuna made me one last delicious home cooked meal. I really adore both of them so much, and they are both such great cooks!
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Multi million pound houses - edited!
... river Lys as a natural river, meandering round tight bends in places. We did not know when to stop taking photographs of the houses, they were all so different and some more pretty than others, but still wonderful. If we saw the owners, we did not know if we would offend them if we took a photo of their lovely house, or it would offend if we didn't, like "what is the matter with my house then?" It reminded us of the upper River Thames ...
To Flanders fields
... that were used by the men in the trenches. The number of trenches that are able to be preserved around Ypres is limited as the relevant area is now an industrial building site.
Our last stop was at the banks of a canal out of Ypres which was the basis for an emergency medical centre run by John McCrae, a Canadian doctor and the author of the famous poem In flanders fields. Wounded soldiers could be evacuated to this ...
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Oud Arenberg B&B
Elizabethlaan 89, Knokke-Heist | Hotelfrom $162
