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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 ...
Holy Blood and Hoppy Beers in Brugge
... toast and cereal), but they included delicious graham-cracker-flavored spread! Can't remember its name, but it was delicious.
After breakfast, we walked to the main square in Brugge and took a million pictures, then headed to the water to take a million more. Brugge is one of the cutest places we've been so far-- might even rival Strasbourg! Then we went inside a beautiful church that housed Michelangelo's Madonna and Child sculpture. ...
Fire Exhibit
... It ended up being a canon which had somehow (nobody knows) become lodged upright into the ground a long time ago. Nobody has moved it or touched it ever since. They simply worked around it. So now it serves the purpose of keeping cars off of the side walk. Good job canon!
Past the canon is another unique apartment complex. Instead of building a new one, they used an old prison and converted it. It doesn't really look like a prison, but it's cool to ...
Potato and Chocolate museum...best birthday ever!
... of Brugge it was a just what we needed to celebrate our arrival in Europe!
We were no doubt hit with moments of total culture shock as we walked through the streets of Brugge, beaming with consumerism, fashion and delicacies. chocolate shops on every corner, beautifully dressed people, and children, women walking the coble stone streets with precision in their stiletto shoes. We stood in the middle of Brugge and thought back to the world we had just left behind in ...
A day in Ieper
... see the Last Post at the Menin Gate one more time. It was packed. It seemed that at least 3-4 schools worth of students were in town that night. The exodus was surprisingly quick, but I'd made the mistake of waiting to eat until after the ceremony and everywhere was busy. The kids weren't there... they were in all the chocolate shops. I went to Poppy's again for some pizza and then hit the sack. Tomorrow was going to be an early day.
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