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Paying our respects to the fallen Canadians of WW1
... in the North by the French in honour of what our country contributed during the wars, particularly the first.
I won't say much else, I just think its important to take a moment and recognize that we live in a country that does have a young but rich history in this respect.
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Merry Christmas!
... In the main Bruges City Hall town square there were magnificent old buildings that were over 500 years old. The square was as medieval a square we have seen in all our travels and it really did remind us of Venice’s architecture. In the center of the square there was a Christmas market complete with ice skating rink, and as the saying goes “when in Rome” we had to partake. Heidi, Casey, and Dan rented skates and gave it a whirl while ...
Flander's Fields
... first to the information centre which has only been open since 2007. As we looked around the names and ages of the dead were slowly read out over a loud speaker and their picture was shown on a screen. The displays are mainly of donated items from a small number of the soldiers of different regiments. There were form letters to families saying a soldier was missing or killed in action as well as a number of more personal ones. The photo of a NZ soldier had 3 NZ ...
The BB Odyssey continues
... it was fated. Inside, I started my best German rendition of “We are Australian, we speak a little German and a little French; do you speak English” and the lady responded in English “better than Deutsch!” haha. She helped us with postpaks, stamps, filling in customs declarations (which were written in French and Flemish - our 2 weakest languages, with the possible exception of Slovenian)etc, and we posted off some presents and bits and pieces ...
In Bruges...
I saw the film "In Bruges" when it came out at the cinema a couple of years ago, and thought it looked like a beautiful city. So when Annabelle (the teacher in charge of me at school, and a good friend) suggested going for the day, Erin and I jumped at the chance.
The advantage of living so close to the Belgian border is that almost everywhere in Belgium is not much more than an hour away, and so we have no excuse not to see a lot of it!
We arrived in Bruges around ...
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