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Belgian Battlefields
... address or location and spent some considerable time trying internet sites and just driving around looking for this site. Eventually we got the Sat Nav to locate this as a 'memorial' and reached the cemetery just after dark. It was also closed by then so I found a gap in the hedge fence I could climb through and paid my respects. Cheryl somewhat annoyed at my driving obsession to do what I had decided I wanted to do despite the dark and poor weather. Headed back for Ieper and ...
A Duvel, Please
... mobile from Qatar worked and Aunty Josette said she would soon be on her way. It was pouring when I arrived in Wervik and I enjoyed the quiet time standing with all the bicycles, being sheltered from the rain, and soaking in the European scene - glistening wet cobbled streets, the small cars, the brick architecture.
Soon enough, Aunty Josette and Dad showed up and after a quick hug and three kisses to Aunty Josette (when is ...
A day in Ieper
... few picture of ducks (there are always ducks on my vacations) and then crossed a foot bridge and followed the path into and under the ramparts I had crossed over a few days earlier.
That morning I'd had a bit of a bad shock. I found that my camera batteries were not charging. I had tried them in London and they had worked, but they were not charging here. If they wouldn't work then I couldn't take pictures for the rest ...
'I died in hell, they called it Passchendaele'
... the graves lie some 3000 'student' soldiers. You German students under trained and thrown into to the battle against Britain's veteran professional army.
Our next stop was the Saint Julien. On the 22nd of April, 1915, the German Army released the first gas attack on the Western Front. The initial attack blew directly into Algerian and Moroccan troops to devastating effect, with more than ...
All Quiet on the Western Front
... quintuple checking my train tickets versus the schedules. I found the right track and managed to get on the right train.
The train ride itself was frightening and fun. This was a first for me... I was going to a country where I didn't speak the language and was completely unprepared for it. I'd committed a cardinal sin of traveling and had pigeon holed an entire culture. Having always associated Belgium ...
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