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Menin Gate and The Last Post but perhaps not ours

After another exciting and full day yesterday, we had a day of relative peace today. Shopping at midday and then early evening off to Ieper to see the last post, which is sounded every night at the Menin Gate at 8pm. We aimed for a car park near the Groot markt making sure that this was a...

permalink written by  rickandsuejohnson on August 16, 2011 from Ieper, Belgium
from the travel blog: Paying our respects

Messines area and street fairs

The day started with a visit to Boescheppe to see a show of draught horses doing their thing pulling logs, carts and ploughing etc. We decided to be clever and use the back roads to get there, which was a mistake as all the approaches from our direction were 'deviation'! We managed to find...

permalink written by  rickandsuejohnson on August 14, 2011 from Messines, Belgium
from the travel blog: Paying our respects

Craters and trenches

In to the tourist office in Bailleul to find out about the Carillon concert in the evening, book our tour of the Brasserie Beck and meal for Saturday evening and to find out about the train to Lille. We also asked about the Blue Zone Parking – apparently its a type of season ticket you can...

permalink written by  rickandsuejohnson on August 11, 2011 from Zillebeke, Belgium
from the travel blog: Paying our respects

'Wipers'

Wipers is the version of the town name used by many thousands of the Tommies who made their way through it to this sector of the front. We set Tom Tom for the centre of Ypres. When we got to the Grote Markt the square was largely taken up by a fun fair but being Sunday morning it was all shut...

permalink written by  rickandsuejohnson on August 7, 2011 from Ieper, Belgium
from the travel blog: Paying our respects

Battlefield Cemetery tour

Off to investigate Boescheppe near to the campsite before heading off towards Ypres (Ieper - pronounced Ee-per in Flemish) and the Essex Farm Cemetery. It was here that Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel Surgeon John McCrae from Guelph (well known to some of our family!) composed his famous poem ‘In...

permalink written by  rickandsuejohnson on August 6, 2011 from Ieper, Belgium
from the travel blog: Paying our respects

hachemi greffou

Belgium already has a disproportionately high accident rate, partly due to the appalling state of its third world roads, and partly due to the stupidity of the average Belgian driver. Once on a pedestrian crossing in a shopping street I was almost hit by a van. His head was tipped back, and he...

permalink written by  hachemigreffou on May 2, 2011 from Brussels, Belgium
from the travel blog: hachemi greffou

Day 4 (Continued)

And a brief layover in Belgium ...

permalink written by   on November 28, 2010 from Brussels, Belgium
from the travel blog: Dublin (2010)

You're Not Dead, Yet.

It was a beautiful day yesterday. As I suspected, the Miro was closed because it was Monday. So yesterday I just walked and walked and walked. It was gorgeous. You can walk this whole city which I love. It was really easy to just get lost in the streets.. many of them are residential and...

permalink written by  Sarah Andrea on May 25, 2010 from Brugge, Belgium
from the travel blog: Europe 2010

In Brugge....Been A While

What to write.....there is so much since the last blog. I liked Amsterdam. I am not sure the weekend was the best OR the worst time to be there...because it was madness.The weather was wonderful and a nice change from the rain and cold. I found AMS tiring...there is so much to do. I did take...

permalink written by  Sarah Andrea on May 24, 2010 from Brugge, Belgium
from the travel blog: Europe 2010

COACHING con mi grupo del Máster

Hola! Ésta escapada a Bruselas ha sido fenomenal, con el pretexto de tomar una clase sobre: Toma de decisiones, se ha organizado este viaje (bueno, la profesora vive aquí, así que tampoco nos inventamos nada) Desde tiempos inmemoriables mi pasión es el autoconocimiento, la inteligencia...

permalink written by  Noemi y Carlos on May 22, 2010 from Brussel, Belgium
from the travel blog: MI VIDA EN BARCELONA, MI CASA

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