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Traveler The BrownMountains Big OE
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- Apr 28, 2025, 6:21 PM
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 57 m
- Belgium Heuvelland 50.78176, 2.87295450°46’54” N 2°52’23” E
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Restful day at Anna's
April 28 in Belgium ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Pete is not feeling well today, so he has been resting. 🤒😷 I went shopping with Anna. Wandered around a couple of supermarkets, and she took me to kortrijk to a mall, and I had my first waffle. I'm glad Pete wasn't there as it was very messy to eat. It was an Australian waffle 😁😄
Also, she likes to rally drive in her little Suzuki swift. 😳 I thought I drove fast. 😬Read more
Traveler You came along Lieven&Tanja's farm I guess? Nice roads when you're used to drive them, clear vision now. Last year everything grown with corn so impossible to see upcoming traffic 😅. Get better quickly Pete!
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Traveler Lol .... what is the speed limit?
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Traveler No comment...
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Traveler The speed limit is 70ish……. Give or take a few k’s
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Traveler The BrownMountains Big OE
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- Apr 27, 2025, 7:15 PM
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 51 m
- Belgium Mesen - Messines 50.765413, 2.89764750°45’55” N 2°53’52” E
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Messines
April 27 in Belgium ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
During the Christmas truce in 1914, a period of unofficial cease fire on the western front of World War 1, the Germans and Allies played football. They also exchanged gifts and the top brass was not happy.Read more
Traveler Wow... very pointant
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Traveler NZ....
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Traveler Yep
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Traveler The BrownMountains Big OE
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- May 2, 2025, 11:41 AM
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Altitude: 40 m
- Belgium Heuvelland 50.787673, 2.8714750°47’16” N 2°52’17” E
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Wijtschate Kampagnesbos (Forest)
May 2 in Belgium ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
This forest is over 25 hectares. The forest is known for its German war relics, including bunkers, ancient moats, and the Dietrich shaft. With the seven-kilometers hiking trail 'Craters and Mines', you can explore.Read more
Traveler Looks like the weather is great. Pete’s got his legs out
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Traveler EUROPE
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- Oct 3, 2023, 8:29 PM
- 🌙 15 °C
- Altitude: 19 m
- Belgium Westhoek 50.852207, 2.89171350°51’8” N 2°53’30” E
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Days 44 and 45
October 3, 2023 in Belgium ⋅ 🌙 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 the Depot. Volunteers conduct this service which includes playing the last post at 8pm 365 nights a year in appreciation of all those who served - an incredible comittment
Photo 3 - Tyne Cot - largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world
Photo 4 - letter advising parents their son is deceased
Photo 5 - remains of caterpillar mine crater - one of a series of mines that were placed along the German front line by tunnelling

Day 45
The tour of The Catacombs in Paris is approximately 2 km long and deep underground. It contains the bones of over 6 million people. There's 140 steps to go down and 112 to get out. The height dips to 5' 11" in some places. It's a bit freaky down there quite macabre and a bit eerie. Thankfully reasonably well lit !!

Photos 6 and 7- Catacomb's tunnels
Photos 8 - 10 - bones

Last night in Paris heading for Singapore via Dubai tomorrow night.Read more
Traveler 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! 😃
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Thanks for sharing your travels. Great pics. You will be home now. Talk soon xx [Lorraine]
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Traveler Heartbreaking even after all these years.
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Traveler EUROPE
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- Oct 2, 2023, 10:26 PM
- ☁️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 20 m
- Belgium Westhoek 50.849738, 2.88938550°50’59” N 2°53’22” E
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Day 45–46
Days 42 and 43
October 2, 2023 in Belgium ⋅ ☁️ 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 races part was good !!
Photos 1 - 3- sports bar and races
Video 1 - race crowd do the Viking clap like the Canberra raiders

Day 43
Photo 4 - Adelaide Cemetary outside Villers Bretonneux. An unknown soldier has been removed from this cemetary and placed in Canberra

Photos 5, - 7with our guide at the John Monash Centre - a museum and interpretative centre that commemorates Australian servicemen and women who served on the Western Front during the first world war
Photo 8 - battlefields and war cemetaries visited today
Photo 9 - Memorial to women at the Lochnagar Crater
Video 2 - Lochnagar Crater (tunnel dug under major German command centre in order to blow it up)
Photo 10 - memorial to all animals used in the war effort - horses, mules, dogs and pigeons
Photo 11 - Pheasant Wood cemetary at Fromelles - newest war
cemetary created following the discovery of 6 mass graves in 2008
Photo 12 - VC Corner Australian Cemetary - the only cemetary that has just Australian soldiers (known and unknown)Read more
Traveler Poor John. We thought the Broncos had it in the bag 💼
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Traveler Have a very relaxing time in Singapore- it’s stunning- and a very safe trip home!
10/2/23Reply
Traveler Looks like a beautiful day for the races! What fun!
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Basel - Dunkerque - Oxford
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- Apr 12, 2025, 4:19 PM
- ☀️ 24 °C
- Altitude: 16 m
- Belgium Ypern 50.869004, 2.84578150°52’8” N 2°50’45” E
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Veloautobahn ans Meer
April 12 in Belgium ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Fast hätten wir einen Pausentag in Tournai eingelegt, doch dann haben wir uns für das "etwas" sportlichere Programm entschieden und sind losgefahren...
Und da die Kilometer nur so purzelten sind wir schlussendlich 100 km bis ans Meer gefahren 😉.Read more
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Traveler Bravo 👏 🤩
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Europe Xmas River Cruise ++
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- Jan 2, 2025, 1:00 PM
- ⛅ 6 °C
- Altitude: 16 m
- Belgium Sint-Jan 50.863873, 2.93112550°51’50” N 2°55’52” E
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Rifleman Frederick Alley
January 2 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C
Rifleman Frederick Alley DOD 13Dec17 Age unknown

Killed in Action

3 NZ Rifle Brigade, 3 Battalion

Grave Plot II, C.22

The site of the current cemetery was until the Third Battle of Ypres in no man’s land. On July 31, 1917, the 15th (Scottish) Division captured the Lost Corner and Freiberg with the 55th (West Lancashire) Division on their left flank. The cemetery was started the next month by the 15th and 16th (Irish) Division, under the name ‘New Cemetery, Frezenberg’. A few weeks later, however, a British plane crashed near the current ‘Cross of Sacrifice’, which earned the cemetery its current name, Aeroplane Cemetery. The cemetery was used by combat units until March 1918.

The cemetery includes the graves of 15 men who served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Plots II to VIII, and part of Plot I, were formed after the Armistice when graves were brought in from small burial grounds and the surrounding battlefields. There are now 1,105 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 636 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate eight casualties known or believed to be buried among them.Read more
What a great effort Maurice, Amber, Riley and Logan! Thanks for all these photos of this history. [Carol Gilling]
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What a journey! [Carol Gilling]
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Europe Xmas River Cruise ++
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- Jan 2, 2025, 9:30 AM
- ☁️ 4 °C
- Altitude: 64 m
- Belgium Klein Zillebeke 50.830475, 2.95268350°49’50” N 2°57’10” E
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Tracing Alfred William Alley’s movements
January 2 in Belgium ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
Through finding Alfred’s battalion diaries written by the commanding officer we were able to trace where he was in the few days before he died.

Their camp was moved from one location to a few kilometres away & Alfred and some others were sent to a supply dump site called Hornby where they were tasked with making g some accommodations. It was when they were returning from Hornby dump to the new camp site that they came under artillery fire and he and another man were killed and some wounded, all from his brigade.Read more
Traveler 3 good looking young men.
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What bad luck for Alfred Alley! [Carol Gilling]
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Well it does not look like you will see snow in Europe? [Carol Gilling]
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Traveler Belgium & Munich
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- Sep 21, 2024, 12:52 AM
- 🌙 59 °F
- Altitude: 36 ft
- Belgium Plokhaanbeek 50.841554, 2.63964750°50’30” N 2°38’23” E
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Poperinge Belgium!!!
September 21, 2024 in Belgium ⋅ 🌙 59 °F
We made it!!! Brian is in Bier Heaven! We took the train from the airport to this very small town. There is one taxi (TaxiLeo), and he is now our BFF. We had a room at the St Bernardus Guest House, which was totally cool. They only have 11 rooms. We did have the penthouse, but had to climb the stairs. Totally worth it!

We had several Biers and dinner at Bar Bernardus. Their rooftop bar looks out over their hop farm and the countryside. We tried to get to St Sixtus, home of the "best beer in the world," but ended up being a story for tomorrow.Read more
Traveler Do they all claim "best beer in the world??"
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Traveler not all, and this claim is by others, not the brewery itself
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Traveler EUROPE & UK 2024
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- Apr 25, 2024, 5:05 PM
- 🌬 11 °C
- Altitude: 43 m
- Belgium Zonnebeke 50.887218, 2.9992550°53’14” N 2°59’57” E
Day 12
Day 12: Ypres to Hamme
April 25, 2024 in Belgium ⋅ 🌬 11 °C
Celebrated an emotional ANZAC day at the Menin Gates. Visited war memorial sites. Met Ed the old Aussie whose son owns Goodiesons brewery in McLaren vale. Gonna meet us there sometime! Graham has a knack for finding the best country pubs.Read more
Traveler Went to Goodiesons last week and loved it. Bought a 6 pack of their ginger beer. ❤️
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