Brugge

April 22

An old city in Belgium, centre of the Bolognian dynesty in the French ruling houses. They are proud of their history and have maintained the old buildings designed in their own style of Flemish Gothic or Renaissance

It was once a major trade centre with transportation based on river travel and canals

 

 

They also re-enact events from their period of greatness


 

Ypres

April 19-21,23-24

There is no better way that the concept of the losses of men on these battle fields can be shown to those who were not here than to observe the size of the cemeteries that are left behind and to study the dates of death of the men. 

Row upon row of stones, many without a name such as shown in the picture below

One cemetery, Butts New British Cemetery, at Polygon Wood, contains 2200 graves of soldiers from Britain, New Zealand and Australia.

Only 500 have names engraved on them while the rest contain bodies of unknown soldiers whose names are engraved on Memorial walls at such places as the Menin Gate, Tynecote cemetery or the New Zealand Memorial shown in this picture.