Ieper Travel Blogs

Ypres was one of the most important cloth producing and cloth trading cities of the county of Flanders in the high Middle-Ages. Bruges is known all over the world for being a beautifully preserved medieval town, but if the First World War (The Great War) had not raged over Ypres, perhaps Ypres woul…

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I called this trip unexpected Belgium because I visited this country only for my quest to make a trip every month this year. Belgium was chosen because TB johnnyjohnny suggested me to visit him in the country he lives. So as Belgium is in Western Europe, they speak the same language as me for a part of it and I've never heard about great atmosphere there, I didn't expect fun neither adventure, only a goal. But things went different....

Our last day in Belgium we went back to Calais through the battlefields of Flanders, stopping at the a couple of cemetaries and museums (Hill 62 was particularly extensive) and finally Ieper, partially rebuilt after being totally flattened during the fighting. It was fairly moving and disturbing to…

The 21st of July is our National Holiday and as tradition wants it, it's either (in 80% of the cases) raining or there's a heat wave on, so it didn't come as a surprise that as soon as we crossed the border into Belgium, it started to rain. We weren't looking forward of getting back home so soon, …

Ieper, A place, very small, even though it looks old, it's completeley rebuild after 1918, the end of the first world war. Every corner is a reminder to the cruels there. As we arrived by bus, we were with a complete class, first thing we went to the Ieper Museum. It's a good museum called In Fland…