Ypres
17 luglio 2023, Belgio ⋅ ☀️ 22 °CYpres, the staging zone for the allied forces in WWI before heading to the front lines of the Western Front. A very sombre place with many soldiers buried unidentified.😔
Ypres, the staging zone for the allied forces in WWI before heading to the front lines of the Western Front. A very sombre place with many soldiers buried unidentified.😔
Our home for the night doubles as a private museum for the chairman of the Last Post committee. An ideal spot of course, given our coming attendance at the Last Post.
Decided to spend tomorrow’s ANZAC day at the Menin gates in Ypres. Visited the war cemetaries today. Teared up reading “they are not lost, they are here”.
Belgium beers. Haven’t met one I don’t like. Very moving ceremony by the Manin gates tonight. Happens EVERY night of the year. 5-6 bugles at a time.
After a good night's sleep in a car park, better than last night's site, a stroll around without the revellers.
Off. To catch the chunnel
This is just down the street from the Menin Gate. There's an amazing clock tower building in the square that housed the Flanders Field museum. Unfortunately it had just closed when we got there.
Every single night at 8pm they do a remembrance ceremony at the Menin Gate to honor the thousands and thousands of fallen soldiers. Thier names cover the monument.
In Ypern befindet sich das Flandern Fields Museum. Es ist ein geschichtsträchtiger Ort damals kämpften hier Franzosen und Briten gegen die Deutschen im 1. Weltkrieg. In der Stadt gibt es vieleLeggi altro
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