 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
|||
 |
|
||||
 |
 |
|
|||
 |
 |
|
|||
 |
 |
|
|||
Photos - Belgium - Kemmel
|
|
|
|
We want to see as many countries as possible and to that end decided to visit Belgium. There is an immediate change from the countryside of northern France when you cross the border. Gone is the graffiti and the buildings, roads and homes instantly change; we were to find out the reason for this over the next few days.
Our preconception of it being a dull country was soon turned around when we found a car rally route passed just behind our campsite. We stayed in Kemmel which is a small village south of Ypres. During the first world war this is where the front line in Flanders Fields ran. This is why there are few buildings over 90 years old.
The border control
The indignity of being pushed to the pits
The finishing line
World War 1 bunkers (notice the gun - again)
Dad explains as Hazel hangs on every word
Looking for shrapnel
The Officers Mess of John McCrae (author of In Flanders Fields)
The Trench of Death
Reconstructed from 1914
We explored EVERY inch
Group photo just before we found we were locked in the barbed wire compound
of the Trench of Death
Luckily Dad found an escape route
|
|
|
|