RanskaHauts-de-FranceBailleul50°43’54” N 2°44’12” E BelgiaFlandersIeperWesthoek50°50’59” N 2°53’22” E 2. lokakuuta 2023, Belgia ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Day 42 was meant to be utopia for John who found a sports bar to watch the rugby league grand final live. He then went to the Prix de l'arc de Triomphe (Melbourne Cup of Europe). At least the racesLue lisää
BelgiaFlandersIeperWesthoek50°51’7” N 2°53’28” E 2. heinäkuuta 2022, Belgia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
1000s of Australian soldiers marched between the lions and through the Menin gates on their way to the Ypres salient in 1917.
The memorial is located at the eastern exit of the town and marks theLue lisää
BelgiaFlandersIeperWesthoek50°51’8” N 2°53’30” E 3. lokakuuta 2023, Belgia ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Day 44
Day 2 of Battlefields tour.
Photos - 1 and 2- after attending a short rememberance ceremony at the Menin Gates we had dinner with our guide at a really nice hotel in Ypres, Belgium called theLue lisää
Matkaaja Amazing trip Shelley & John - thank you for sharing. Some parts have bought back great memories for me and the places I haven’t been I’ve enjoyed feeling just a teeny bit jealous! 😃
Thanks for sharing your travels. Great pics. You will be home now. Talk soon xx [Lorraine]
BelgiaFlandersZonnebeke50°53’15” N 2°59’53” E
2. heinäkuuta 2022, Belgia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
The cemetery was named after a barn at the centre of a German strong point called "Tyne Cot". It was captured in October 1917 in the advance. It contains 11956 graves compromising of 8961 Brits, 997Lue lisää
BelgiaFlandersHeuvellandLoker50°47’18” N 2°45’54” E
28. huhtikuuta 2023, Belgia ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
Na een mooie wandeling zijn we terug in Loker en besluiten we de Frontierautoroute te gaan rijden. Eerste stop is de beroemde Kemmelberg (uit Gent-Wevelgem). Boven is een Frans massagraf. We zullen erLue lisää
BelgiaFlandersIeperZillebeke50°49’24” N 2°55’42” E
3. heinäkuuta 2023, Belgia ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Hill 60 was a strategic high point in the German lines. In June 1917, Australian and British tunnelers and miners exploded 19 mines beneath it and other hills along the Messines Ridge with devastatingLue lisää
BelgiaFlandersIeperWesthoek50°51’0” N 2°53’24” E 2. heinäkuuta 2023, Belgia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
We crossed into Belgium and the town of Ypres. It was completely flattened in the war and rebuilt by the end of the 1920's. Its destruction was used as a symbol of the devastation of war. It wasLue lisää
BelgiaFlandersIeperWesthoek50°51’2” N 2°53’20” E
16. heinäkuuta 2022, Belgia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Luštno belgijsko mesto, katerega imena nikakor ne znava izgovorit. Bežen pogled na wikipedijo pove, da so ga osvajali naprej Rimljani, kasneje še vsi narodi naokrog.
Znan je po barvanem tekstiluLue lisää
BelgiaFlandersZonnebeke50°53’12” N 3°0’0” E
4. heinäkuuta 2023, Belgia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Tyne Cot is the largest Commonweath war grave cemetery in the world. There are 950 in France and Belgium. It is on the site of the Battle of Broodseinde, which involved Australian and allied troops inLue lisää
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