In October we spent one week in Belgium and for one day we went on a tour of the WWI memorials, sights and museums in the Ypres Salient. The visit to Ypres itself was at the end of the tour and we did not have a lot of time in the town.
We visited the museum In Flanders Field which was a lovely museum but we only had one hour and this museum needs at least 2/3 hours or more to fully enjoy it.
Finally we visited the Menin Gate which is quite an amazing memorial and it has the names of over 54,600 British and Commonwealth men who have no known grave, killed in the Ypres Salient. The arch was designed by British architect Reginal Blomfield in 1921. At 8pm every evening volunteers buglers from the fire brigade sound the "Last Post" this is a moving tribute to the fallen men for their courage and sacrifice in defense of their town.
We did not see this as we had already left but I would have definitely liked to have experienced this event.
The whole tour was really amazing and very moving, will do another post with all the other sights we saw and visited.
Have a good week!
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