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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
... Car Route 1914 -18' guide of cemeteries and other WW1 sites and decided to head out and make the most of the wonderful clear weather. Our self paced guide book will eventually take us 70 km throughout the Ypres district. With the expert assistance of my very talented wife - come navigator - we managed the first 13/19 sites on the tour route, as well as one very significant additional stop, without the use of our Sat Nav. Didn't quite get the whole ...
My Belgium Christmas
Belgium….
Beer
Chocolate
Cigarettes
Cecemel
cola
So in nepal i met a girl called Daisy who thought it was completely tragic, that my plan was to be on a plane on christmas day. So with little convincing my flight was changed from Kathmandu London to Kathmandu to brussels a few days earlier. And fter a delayed flight from Kathmandu to Delhi and then flight from Delhi to Heathrow and been detained at Heathrow airport by customs ...
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 ...
'I died in hell, they called it Passchendaele'
... in the first 15 minutes. Their lines broke and a huge gap opened in the front. The effect was so sudden that the Germans were left unprepared and didn't immediately exploit their success. This gave the Canadian troops time to move into the trenches and fill the gaps. A few days later, at St. Julien, the Germans launched another gas attack directly at the Canadians. Although the line wavered and ...
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