This morning we left our little Brugge hotel and caught the 7.30pm train to Ypres arriving in Ypres at 9.30am. We had booked ourselves on the 10am Salient Tour for the day exploring a number of First World War sites including Passchendaele, a German war cemetery and their trenches,travelled along the Ypres high ground,Tyne Cot Cemetery the Messine church, Essex Farm Cemetery and bunkers (for the wounded) where the poem In Flanders Field was written. We also crossed into France to a cemetery so as a kiwi couple could bury some replica medals in the ground for 2 Uncles that were buried there. It was a great tour, small with only 8 people.
Tony in a restored German trench.
We arrived back in Ypres about 6pm then checked in at The Albion Hotel. It was then time to walk to Menin Gate. This memorial displays the names of 54,896 soldiers of the British Empire who went missing in action.
The last Post is played at 8pm every day of the year here at Menin Gate
More than 150 military cemeteries were built in and around the city.
A senseless war.
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