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Tag Archives: Ypres

Applause

28/07/2015by leawinkeler Leave a comment

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. […]

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Events

Salient Walking

01/04/2014by leawinkeler Leave a comment

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 […]

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Places

Aspirin

26/12/2013by leawinkeler Leave a comment

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 […]

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Canadian Allies

05/12/2013by leawinkeler Leave a comment

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 […]

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Getting prepared

Soil Stories

18/11/2013by leawinkeler Leave a comment

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 […]

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Events

Menin Gate at Midnight

28/08/2013by leawinkeler Leave a comment

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 […]

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