Ypres

Big day visiting lots of sites. First stop Essex farm where John McCrae wrote In Flanders Field. Then a brief stop at a German cemetery with over 44,000 buried soldiers. Stark and cold compared to Commonwealth ones and I didn't stay long.
On to Hooge Crater Museum which included lunch and a visit to the secret garden with their recreated trenches in the exact spot they were in 2016.
Off to Polygon Wood and ANZAC corner and the story of the Hunter Brothers - https://www.brothersinarmsmemorial.info/ Well worth the read.
Lastly, off to Tyne Cot Cemetery, which is the largest Commonwealth Cemetery in the world. Over 12,000 buried and 70% of them unknown.
All very sobering but many tales of ANZAC bravery.
Back to the hotel and a group dinner together for our last night. Back to Lille tomorrow late afternoon. Then off to Paris on Tuesday. Countdown on to travel home.もっと詳しく