Hotel Le Withof
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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 ...
Row upon row they rest
... Yperman Ale) completed a great meal. We went back to our second Menin Gate service (in the freezing cold) after dinner. Significantly less people than last night but this gave us an opportunity to talk with and thank the local organisers of this special service. Bought some Belgian chocolates on the way home and enjoyed a long chat with the shop keeper Back to appreciate our warm bedroom to recharge batteries -looking forward to completing our tour in the ...
The first time on a campsite since I was a teenage
... br> Used the ACSI card to get a pitch, 2 showers and electric fo 14 euros.
Made our way to the allotted pitch. Drove on and then couldn't find the electric point! Super bloke from 2 pitches up, showed us where the electric point was and suggested that we abandon the pich for one closer to the power. Which we did of course!
Having ...
More Fields
This is a top pick!
The making of Australia was forged on the fields of what was meant to have been the war to end all wars, WW1, Fighting took place in Gallipoli and then moved onto the Flanders and the Somme, and the rest is history.
Having travelled numerous times around the battlefields, we never get sick of seeing them, and as I had a spare weekend coming up, I had a look around and discovered another battlefield route, and as it was only 80ish Ks, we decided ...
Cycle ride up the valley
... Bois and up to the main road at Henoville, gently climbing most of the way, then a long steeper climb at the end. We had not taken much water and there were no cafes or shops in the sleepy, typically French farm villages, so we could not go much further. We enjoyed the big sweeping downhill ride all the way back. (Probably about 8 miles there and back).
We scraped together all the bits ...
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