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Belgian Battlefields
... in arms once dead in the ground. Some pretty autumn colours in some of the trees at the back of this cemetery. A moving but peaceful visit. Sat Nav had difficulty directing us to Talbot House Museum in the centre of Poperinge as a set of one way streets had her beaten. Eventually we parked and walked into the centre of town only to find the museum closed -another disappointment. Headed north to find a second German cemetery near Vladslo. Major frustration here as we had ...
First day out in Brugge
... clear to us, could not find the bus stop and waited forever - they only come x1 per hour on a Sunday, then moved to another stop and waited longer there, and then went back and found the stop and waited on the wrong side of the road, so had a little tour - finally got into the Centrum - came upon the Grand Place and of course there were lots of establishments for refreshments and so there we were sitting ...
Who Knew Our President is only 74% Cocoa?
... the dark and bloody colonial history of chocolate – From it’s development by the Mayans and Aztecs (xocolatl was it's original Nahuatl name) through its colonization by Europeans who spread cocoa trees around the world. You also get a taste of elite chocolate making culture – the top floor of the museum displays the work of several of Belgium’s top chocolateriers – men (and they are all ...
Ieper and Bruges
... was that you are able to walk through the last exisitng WWI trenches. The trenches turned out to be OK, a little cheesy as they are privately owned, and there is some doubt as to their authenticity. However even if they were surreptitiously dug many years after the fact, it is still an eerie feeling to step down there and look towards the German lines a few hundred yards away. The rest of the area was incredibly ...
A day in Ieper
... few picture of ducks (there are always ducks on my vacations) and then crossed a foot bridge and followed the path into and under the ramparts I had crossed over a few days earlier.
That morning I'd had a bit of a bad shock. I found that my camera batteries were not charging. I had tried them in London and they had worked, but they were not charging here. If they wouldn't work then I couldn't take pictures for the rest ...