Regina Ypres
Grote Markt 45 Ypres, West Flanders, 8900, Belgium
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A Day on the Cobbles - Day 23
Day 23 Arrived in Ypres (if you are French),Ieper(if you are Flemish). We have learned to say Ieper as the Flemish are the boss here. Gorgeous town even though we had to walk about one kilometre from the station with Bern's vitamins shaking in the bags on the cobblestones,sounding like we were drug dealers. The Regina Hotel, our home for two days, …
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Final Morning and Final Thoughts
... cabs are unfortunately metered to how long the trip takes, and not by the distance travelled) and already we are at £6 and we have only travelled the distance equivalent of one end of Markt Square to the other… We fling the already accrued fare at the disgruntled taxi driver, and head for our sixth train station and fourth train of the day…
Bruges was an amazing ...
Day 3 – Anniversary walks, carriage rides an
... happy to snuggle up and enjoy the ride, and didn’t want a detailed commentary on the sights…The cost of the carriage ride was 36E – tipping for the ‘commentary’ is optional…
Another quick beer at the Christmas market, another quick trip back to the hotel for a rest and a further layer of clothes and we’re back out again for our final evening in Bruges. We had been surviving on snack-type meals, but this was ...
Day 2 – the best laid plans….
... there!
A rest is needed to calm our wobbly legs, so it’s a quick afternoon snooze back at the hotel. At 8pm, we venture back outside to spend our evening at the Christmas market on Markt. Except, all of the stalls appear to be closing and there are very few people around! At least, it’s not heaving like the Christmas market we’re used to back here in Birmingham, and we’re able to get a fried potato, bacon and ...
Remembering WW-I history.....
... either didn’t believe him or the information got “lost” somewhere? The German soldiers confession apparently came to the attention of Hitler after the war (in the '30’s?) and the soldier in question was jailed for 10-years at hard labour for treason.
The gas caused great devastation, especially in the French lines. The troops broke from their positions and ran. Jacques read an actual account of the effects, and it wasn’t ...



