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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 ...
More Fields
This is a top pick!
... signs were non-existent !!! The plan was to follow to the route for 40 odd Ks and then have lunch at the old cheese factory, but rain and more hail came, and once Lucy saw the signs for the factory, the route was thrown out the window !!!
So we stopped for lunch, and whilst there, the sun came out, so we finished up and moved on.
Now even though we were not far from Ieper, we had lost the route, so we followed some signs ...
WW1 History Camp - the Gory Historical Part!!
... lie in Belgium and North France, there was a team of gardeners and stone masons working daily to mow, weed and maintain each site. The Commonwealth and European governments and veterans councils certainly take remembrance of these horrific chapters of last century seriously. As the days went on the kids started to show their empathy and respect for the events, memories and horrors of trench warfare of WW1. Initially some kids were keen ...
Who Knew Our President is only 74% Cocoa?
... men, with one exception of a woman designer who w I’m convinced was put in out of affirmative action.) who make millions of Euro a year to create the perfect confections suitable for only the richest Flemish palate. $500 and up for one praline? No problem.
Dowstairs is more “popularized” art using chocolate as a medium. My favorite – Choclobama. That’s right, our 44th president, in 74% ...
Ieper and Bruges
... row after row of graves, all for that little patch of ground, battle memorials from every country involved. Simply standing on a farmers field that probably still holds the bodies of countless men just a few feet below. Definitely a moving place, a testament to the horror, and above all futility, of war...after all that, and then the next one, not even a stop sign as you drive into France from Germany today.
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Best Western Hotel Pax
Heilig Hart Plein 2, Diksmuide | Hotelfrom $128 -
Hotel Sint Jan
Bloemmolenkaai 1, Diksmuide | Hotel
