Hotel Chateau Tilques
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Belgian Battlefields
... side. Each post represents a day in the life of the cemetery from just before the war in 1914 through to 1921 when the hospital finally closed. On each post there are notches (starting from ground level) up the post - one for each burial in the cemetery. A very moving entry to what is another huge burial place that covers another considerable area of land. Here we saw graves of soldiers of many nations - Aussies, English, Canadian, a few Americans and a section for German soldiers. ...
Row upon row they rest
... the girls footsteps over this hallowed ground. The donkey and goats in the yard next to Polygon Wood Cemetery added a little levity to our visit. The sun was going down quickly as we headed back on to the guided route. We watched the sun set while we were at Hill 62 and we enjoyed the views back towards Ieper in the fading light. Last night I came across a brochure that indicated the Old Tom Hotel was part of a group of Ieper Hotels who were offering ...
The first time on a campsite since I was a teenage
So we poddled along from Canterbury to Dover this morning. We caught the 1230 ferry and sat for 3 hours whilst it fought its way through the weather in the English Channel. The food on board DFDS is not to be recommended.
Having arrived and got offloaded very rapidly, we drove a very short distance down the coast to a camp site which is open ...
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... the West Flanders, so we knew none of the history. Basically, the locals fought, and at Nieuwpoort, the locks were opened, and this part of Belgium was flooded, and the rest is history.
On the road, it didn't take long for the memorials, to come. There was an old arch and tower at one, but we didn't go in as we didn't have as much sun as we would like, so we moved on. Not much further were more bunkers, paying ones, so once again we resisted ...
A day in Ieper
In my planning, I knew that halfway through my trip I would want to curl into a fetal position and just be untaxed in any way. I figured Flanders was as good a place as any to go catatonic. I did manage to have a pretty active day.
After waking up, I just started to walk around without any real plan, beyond not spending any time directly adjacent to any of the bigger sites in the city. I wasn't disappointed. The city ...
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- Restaurant
- Swimming pool
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Business Services
- Free parking
- Pets allowed
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