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#1 of 4 Ypres travel blogs
Ypres (Ieper)
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May 13, 2006 - May 14, 2006
We went to Ypres (Ieper), Belgium to explore the battlefields in and around Ypres. Actually we've been there now several times, not just because of the history there, but also because it's one of the most beautiful towns here in Belgium. If you are a history lover, you'll enjoy the opportunity to either take a guided tour, which is best to do if you don't have small children with you, because if they make noise and disturb the other tourists, the tour guides might ask...
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#2 of 4 Ypres travel blogs
Ypres and FLanders Fields
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May 13, 2006 - Oct 27, 2007
Ypres, Belgium -› -› ...
Once again I explained what everythign is in the intro,  but for the third time there here is what I said.   .  The third time I was there was with the family again and 2 of my buddies from out of town.  Did pretty much the same things but this time we added the Essex Farm where the Poem In Flanders Fields was written.  In the town of Ypres is the IN Flanders Fields Museum and The Menin Gate.   The Menin gate is a monument to the British missing and kille...
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#3 of 4 Ypres travel blogs
Beer shop
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Apr 02, 2003
As a young member of my country i feel it is my duty to remember those who gave their lives to protect the way of live we all now and should enjoy. With my wife and i looking into our family history our links to the past have become very real. One such family member that of my wife's great granddad was killed in the trenches of the first world war. As a family we travelled to Belgium to remember him.
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#4 of 4 Ypres travel blogs
Ypres
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Sep 28, 2007
Belgium -› Ypres, Belgium -› ...
It was my first time in Ypres (and indeed Belgium), and the town itself it beautiful in a picture postcard kind of way. It's all the more amazing when you learn that the whole thing was re-built to the original plans after the war, when it had been involved in several key battles to secure the route to France and Calais.The Menin Gate was jaw dropping. There were so many names. Yet it remained a practical, and touching, monument to the Commonwealth war dead. I would have liked to have see...
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