Applause
EN – I don’t think they feel as if we failed them, the 54.000 souls whose names are engraved at the Menin Gate. I guess they are quite surprised, really. […]
Tag Archives: Ypres
Salient Walking
EN – Don’t stay in Ypres. Do visit this tranquil and welcoming town, do visit its impressive In Flanders Fields Museum. But then, if you possibly can, put on your […]
Aspirin
EN – Hospital chinaware bearing a red cross, a superbly crafted syringe, a box of aspirin of a century old. Vintage for medics…! I’m at the ‘War and Trauma. Soldiers […]
Canadian Allies
EN – May I present you our new Canadian allies: Christine (Taste of Nova Scotia) en Doug (ACOA). They dragged me along through Halifax for a few days, with the […]
Soil Stories
Schoolboys escorting the soldier carrying Flanders Fields soil EN – It was cool and windy below the Menin Gate on November 11, but the sun was shining and everybody was […]
Menin Gate at Midnight
EN – Some images make you stop in your tracks to take a better look. I could not just walk past this painting, of which I discovered a reproduction in […]
my great war / mijn groote oorlog 