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Belgian Battlefields
... visitor centre located just outside the cemetery. Here you get an explanation of the history of this hospital cemetery. Here all the dead are known as they arrived as wounded soldiers who did not recover from their wounds. There are a number of interactive displays and a timeline of the role the Rimy Siding Hospital played in this area during WW1. As you walk towards the main entrance you walk through a long avenue -cemetery wall and vine on one side and 1500 metal posts on ...
In Bruges (Come on, I had to...)
... to it. Also need to remember what things I need from the trunk as it's really very annoying to have to open and close it 3 times before even leaving the car. My mother's done a superb job with the curtains - really superb. I need to move things around and get used to their positions before I can really start to appreciate the work my Dad did on it. For example, putting stuff I don't use often next to the bed makes far more sense ...
Last call
... dining room hung 1/8 scale white plaster bas relief nudes, a sawfish jaw and a wall-sized blurry black and white photo of a woman's face - her expression a 6 on a 1 to 10 pensive-to-mournful scale. A large oak chest filled with logs sat next to a cheerful fire, with dried hyacinths on the mantel. White ceiling fans turned slowly overhead and the hostess was a dead ringer for Helen Mirren. This morning I head to the market square and pay 8 euros for the privilege of ...
Beer, Waffles and Chocolate!!!
... he said he would buy everyone a round of drinks if someone fell in! He also showed us the skinniest street in Brugge (you'd struggle to fit a bike down it!) where there was a bar that served big high percent beers, you were only allowed 3 while you were there! The tour finished about 4.30 and after we found our room, our first 4bed mixed dorm shared with some Spanish guys one who put our efforts at dodgy moustaches during movember ...
Waffles, Chocolate, and Lace, oh my!
... undressing for a shower...we got the hell out of Antwerp.
Next stop was Brussels, which TOTALLY made up for Antwerp. We went to a fantastic museum, first thing. Then, we did an underground tour of the former Grand Palace of Brussels. That would have been an archaeologist’s dream– we got to walk through what used to be the palace at ground level, got to see the stones used for the old ballroom, the archways that used to be part of the church, ...