Ibis Lille Roubaix Centre
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A Duvel, Please
... were 6 of them and must of taken ages to build and were of Danish design, confirmed by the design book which he went and retrieved for us.
I like Paul; he seems like a very content man, though I always think people who work with their hands and are able to make beautiful things must be content. At the beginning, he told Dad he did not speak English but within 3 hours, I remember coming back to the conversation from ...
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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De Luxe
... and another time to the Tunisian restaurant in the local Belgian city of Tournai. We passed a bit of time with Bernard, who was a pretty eccentric and very funny guy living in a nearby run-down building. At first I had a bit of difficulty understanding his accent, and he used a fair bit of slang too, but I soon got used to it.
The warmth and generosity of Gen and her friends was exceptional and I had to really insist or use deception to manage ...
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'
... the graves lie some 3000 'student' soldiers. You German students under trained and thrown into to the battle against Britain's veteran professional army.
Our next stop was the Saint Julien. On the 22nd of April, 1915, the German Army released the first gas attack on the Western Front. The initial attack blew directly into Algerian and Moroccan troops to devastating effect, with more than ...