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In Flanders Field
... 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 came ...
Back at Chateux de Gandspette
... home about 3:30 and if we had got the later one we would have been stuck on the M25 and the M1 also the A5 was closed . So all in all we made the right decision to get up before dawn and wander to the shower block before daylight and walk the dogs before leaving Gandspette by 8 in the morning (that is 7 your time ) and getting on the 10am ferry from Dunkerque!!
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Camp Site nr Steenvoorde
Day 4 Wednesday
We awoke to have Andy say that he didn't think we could carry on with just two drivers, there was no way we could get to Iran by the time our visa's stipulate. I think the volume and the speed of the trafic on the autu routes have frightened him a bit.
It was decided we find a campsite and discuse what to do. So we drove around to find a site, after driving around the same town twice we found a site ...
A sociable day
... to show the others. It seemed very peaceful and surprisingly happy to be held -maybe it was just terrified! (They let it go in the fields afterwards).
My hare is called Ralf and I carried him in my hat! (Matty)
In the evening, we went into the farmhouse for a drink with Pierre-Marie and Brigitte. They are very kind and patient with our Pidgin-French! We were given delicious desserts too -a tarte au poire and the local tarte a l'ancienne.
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Paying our respects to the fallen Canadians of WW1
(Renée) Since I was last in France, I had wanted to come out to Vimy to see the famous Canadian monument and memorials to the fallen Canadian soldiers of WW1 & WW2. Vimy Ridge is Canadian territory in France, and I have heard many stories of Canadians being treated with the utmost warmth ...
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