A Caterham Seven Blog
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Day 7 – Luxembourg South to North
Post Views: 45 Today started with a fantastic breakfast spread laid on by our hosts Tom and Helen. Opted for the non-alcoholic option 😉 Of course we had long chats yesterday, where we learnt the difference between Billige Geschist (cheap shit) vs Gunstig (value). The Germans, of course, appreciate the latter and not the former.…
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Day 6 – Charleroi to Luxembourg
Post Views: 32 So, after a noisy night next to the River Semoy (I was kept awake by the endless campers heading down the gravel track to the loos) we awoke to the dulcet tones of the donkey we had previously thought to be quaint. It was probably 100m from our van, but sounded like…
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Day 5 – Travel Day, Ypres to Charleroi
Post Views: 33 So the day was a perfect travel day. Grey and just sort of thinking about drizzling as we put our stuff away. But before we left the Ypres area we had to do one more cemetery and memorial – Essex Farm, to the north of Ypres. Essex Farm is a smaller site,…
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Day 4 – Ypres War Memorials pt2
Post Views: 42 Today was another day of visiting the Belgian War Memorials around Ypres. In numbers, very stark numbers, 200,000 Commonwealth men (it’s almost exclusively men) lost their lives in the 1914-1918 war in Belgium. A further 500,000 were lost in France and of all those 700,000… 300,000 have never been found, let alone…
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Day 3 – Memorials Around Ypres pt1
Post Views: 31 It’s been a poignant day today. We’ve spent the day cycling around the memorial graveyards to the east of Ypres. The campsite we’re staying at is a two minute cycle ride from the Hooge Crater Museum and Memorial. The Hooge Crater was created early WWI when the allies dug a 60m tunnel…
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