This morning, while we were still in Ypres, we drove just a few kilometres to visit the Passchendaele Museum and Memorial Park. The Battle of

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This morning, while we were still in Ypres, we drove just a few kilometres to visit the Passchendaele Museum and Memorial Park. The Battle of
Every evening at 8pm, dating back to the late 1920s, the Last Post has been played at the Menin Gate memorial, commemorating those Commonwealth soldiers
This afternoon we visited Tyne Cot, the world’s largest Commonwealth war graves cemetery. On the short drive from Ypres, we passed the sites of several
This morning, Rod drove us about 70km in our hire car to Ypres. Ypres, or Ieper as the Belgians spell it, was a medieval town
After walking all around Bruges yesterday, a very large blister reappeared (it first appeared in Budapest) on a toe on my right foot. I was
Please note, there are two sets of photos in this blog post, and text follows each photo set, so keep reading to the end of