Acaciahotel Ypres
D'Hondtstraat 54, (formerly The Shell Hole) Ypres, West Flanders, 8900 Ieper, Belgium
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A lille bit of this and a lille bit of that...
... suit Perth!
Lille is a really nice town to just wander around and take in all the old buildings and little roads in the old town. Check out the photos of the place. I really enjoyed sitting in a coffee shop looking out over the main square with a large ferris wheel (We couldn't go on it cause Hudson was too small) in the background.
It was a pretty tough day of walking as we covered pretty much every square foot of Lille town centre. ...
Don't trip, Dodson.
Day Two:
We left the hostel in Chatham around 10am for our next stop – Dover ferry port. The fourty-five mile journey was pretty easy going, and after a couple of hours we found ourselves ahead of schedule so decided to stop off in Canterbury to hunt down some food. £20 on Nando's later and we set off for the ferry. The second leg ...
The End...
... task but washing mountain had to be tackled!
The next morning we were up bright and early, greeted by some more freezing fog, to take Poppy to the vets. The UK are much stricter about travelling with pets so she had to have an injection more than 24 hours, less than 48 hours before re- entering the country. The vet however didn't seem to think the timings mattered at all and asked us what date and time we wanted in ...
Remembering WW-I history.....
11 Sept. 3 - Saturday
The group had to be up and organized early this morning, as we'd be visiting some of the historic WW-I battlefields near Ypres and Passchendaele. An early breakfast was arranged for 07:00 and the Bus would be leaving at 07:50, in order to (hopefully) avoid heavy traffic.
The first stop of the day was Yypres, where we picked up our local Guide, Jacques near the historic Menin Gates, which was erected as a memorial to British ...
Will ye go to Flanders?
Ieper (Ypres in French; they speak Flemish here) is a beautiful little town half an hour north of the French border at Tourcoing. Given that it was completely flattened during World War 1, they did an excellent job of reconstructing it. People coming back after the war had to locate where there house had been from aerial photos and start again. The town square, a.k.a. the Great Market, is like something from a movie set in 1910, with long ...


