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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 ...
A Day in Bruges
... of those parts of the building that were on public display, and also entitled us to an audio guide. The building has a grand council chamber on the upper floor, decorated to show all sorts of aspects of the history of the city, while there was some more specific material downstairs on some of the people who had had an impact, such as the Emperor Leopold (in the 1780s) and Napoleon.
After that we needed a break so we went and did our laundry. ...
I saw Colin Farrel In Bruges...honestly!
... is Belgium knowing for...well it's various items but mainly mussels, chocolate, beer and interestingly fries. I think I read up somewhere where they were the ones that invented them. So what better way after the brewery tour then to hit up a patio and order a pot of mussels, belgian beer and fries. When I had ordered I asked the guy if I can actually finish a pot full of mussels by myself as they are usually large enough to feed 2 people. He ...
Brugge, friets, chocolate and beers
... for the road (its cultural) and set off towards the pub (its cultural).
We found a fantastic little dark and dingy pub which had a flight of steps down under street level, and it had stone walls and very very cool music playing (sounded like Martha Wainright but wasn’t). The bar tender was a nice fellow who helped me with our beer selections, and there was some wifi so we did a quick bit of drunken Facebooking (which is the most fun way to ...
A day in Ieper
... channel ports where the British received their reinforcements and supplies. If the Germans could break through at Ieper, they could cut off the British forces and drive them out of the war. As a result, for 3 years both sides fought over Ieper, until they were fighting over nothing but bones. Almost no building were left standing, and what stood could hardly be called buildings. Through many years and much money from ...