Best Western Flanders Lodge Ypres

Industrielaan 19 Ypres, West Flanders, 8900, Belgium

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Final Morning and Final Thoughts

A travel blog entry by emfletche

... approached for money “for a cup of tea” was back in Birmingham. Everyone we encountered was extremely friendly, and was able to converse with us in English. We also found the prices of food and drinks reasonable, with our only trip to an ATM to replace the money we’d spent on chocolate Christmas presents…

Thank you Bruges for an anniversary weekend to ...

Day 3 – Anniversary walks, carriage rides an

A travel blog entry by emfletche

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... dinner! But with no plan in mind – and that scourge of the 21st century: TOO MUCH CHOICE! – we wander around aimlessly trying to decide who would be our culinary hosts for the night. Too expensive… too cheap… too busy… too quiet… not enough variety… nothing we want to eat here….

Eventually we do what all good tourists do… we succumb to a nice warm restaurant, offering a set ...

Day 2 – the best laid plans….

A travel blog entry by emfletche

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... mmm, tasty!) and a chocolate-sauce soaked waffle before everything is packed away. Once again, our plans are foiled, so there is only one thing to do…. Drink beer.

We head off in no particular direction. We find the second Christmas market at Simon Stevin plein – also closing for the night. Then a little alleyway and a pub sign catches my eye…

Cafe‘t Brugs Beertje was definitely on my list of TA ...

Remembering WW-I history.....

A travel blog entry by eagle10

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... Our next stop was the Commonwealth Cemetery at Tyne-Cot (short for “Tyne Cottages”) which is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world. It contains almost 12,000 soldiers, of which about 8,300 are unnamed, and I found this to be an especially moving site for me. As I walked between the rows of white crosses in the bright afternoon sun, I thought of the many Canadian fathers, sons and brothers who now rested in this sacred Belgian soil, and ...

Will ye go to Flanders?

A travel blog entry by smllblckflwrs

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... 1928, in the Menin Gate monument. It is in tribute to those who died fighting in the Ypres salient in WW1. The Menin gate itself is a huge arch/bridge, inscribed with the names of 56,000 British who died at Ypres, but whose bodies were never found (bodies are still popping up from time to time, last one was found July 2010).
The next day, I went to the "In Flanders Fields" museum, dedicated to the WW1 history in the area. They had a ...

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