Belgium: A Tribute to World War 1 Travel Guide
I was invited on a press trip by Visit Flanders tourism office, to witness the 100 year anniversary of World War 1. This video shares the highlights of the trip to the small towns of Ypres and Zonnebeke where some of the most gruesome battles of the war took place.
Locations:
In Flanders Field Museum
Tyne Cot Cemetery
Memorial Museum of Passchendaele
Menin Gate
Last Post Ceremony
Kazematten Brewery
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Top 13 Attractions in Belgium according to Lonely Planet
Top 13 Attractions in Belgium according to Lonely Planet
13. Cartoon Culture
Belgium has a consuming passion for comic strips, which are considered the 'Ninth Art'. Foreigners might know the boy-reporter Tintin whose creater, Hergé, is celebrated at a fine new museum in Louvain La neuve.
12. Art nouveau
Swirls, curlicues and architectural daring: don't leave Brussels without exploring some of its art nouveau marvels. The style was developed with the help of the architects Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde.
11. Flanders Fields
Flanders Fields is a common English name of the World War I battlefields in an area straddling the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders. The name Flanders Fields is particularly associated with battles that took place in the Ypres Salient, including the Second Battle of Ypres and the Battle of Passchendaele.
10. Belfries & Begijnhoven
The Belfries of Belgium is a group of historical buildings designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, in recognition of an architectural manifestation of emerging civic independence in historic Flanders and neighbouring regions from feudal and religious influences, leading to a degree of local democracy of great significance in the history of humankind.
9. Chocolate
Belgium is famed for its high quality chocolate and over 2,000 chocolatiers, both small and large. Belgium's association with chocolate goes back as far as 1635 when the country was under Spanish occupation. From the early 20th century, the country was able to import large quantities of cocoa from its African colony, the Belgian Congo.
8. Castles
From French-style chateaux to Crusader-era ruins, Belgium is overloaded with spectacular castles. Antwerp and Ghent both retain medieval ones right in their city centres. And Namur, like Huy and Dinant, is dominated by a massive fortress citadel that retained military importance well into the 20th century.
7. Antwerp Art & Fashion
Go-ahead Antwerp is a city that has everything. its skyline is still dominated by one of the lowlands' most magnificent stone steeples and its medieval house-museums are stuffed with works by its most famous 17th-century resident, Pieter Paul rubens. But it's a dynamic place with state-of-the-art museums, vibrant nightlife and a reputation as one of europe's capitals of haute couture.
6. Art Cities
If you love the medieval charm of Bruges but want to be a little more original, a great choice is Gghent. this historic city also has its share of canalside splendour, a great arts scene and a grittier charm that many visitors find refreshing. Or try Mechelen. it's overloaded with splendid churches and the grand central square is graced with a fanciful town-hall complex that's only topped for sheer flamboyance by the statue-festooned equivalent in Leuven, Belgium'''s ancient university city.
5. Carnival Capers
If your neighbours' idea of a good time is to dress up in barrel costumes jingling with little bells, don spooky masks and ostrich feather hats, and then go throwing oranges at passers-by, you might wonder about their sanity. then again you might just be living in Binche. That's the town whose unique mardi gras carnival has long been so indulgent it gave the english language the term 'binge'.
4. Belgian Beer
For a comparatively small country, Belgium produces a very large number of beers in a range of different styles -- in fact, it has more distinct types of beer per capita than anywhere else in the world. In 2011, there were 1,132 different varieties of beer being produced in the country.
3. Flemish Primitives
The whole of western representational art was transformed in the 15th century by a group of Bruges-based painters whose mastery of oil paints allowed them to simulate reality and paint faces that expressed apparently real emotions. Simultaneously, the burgeoning economy of Flanders meant that rich sponsors were prepared to commission secular works.
2. Brussels' Grand Place
The Grand Place is the central square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guildhalls, the city's Town Hall, and the Breadhouse. The square is the most important tourist destination and most memorable landmark in Brussels. It measures 68 by 110 metres (223 by 361 ft), and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1. Bruges
Bruges is a picture-postcard-perfect city in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium. Relatively cosmopolitan and bourgeois given its compact size, it is one of the best preserved pre-motorised cities in Europe and offers the kind of charms rarely available other than in Europe.
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Passendale (Passchendaele), Belgium today
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Passchendaele as a word has become in the English language synonymous with mud and an unending swamp through which men fought in 1917, forgetting that it is also the town of Passendale in Belgium. Strangely enough, whereas the spelling Passchendaele is obsolete in Belgium, it has been retained in English. This is because during the First World War, the French language spelling of towns was that which was used everywhere throughout Belgium. Passendale is located to the east of Ypres and is noted for its part in the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917, although there was also a battle there in October 1914 when it was captured by the Kaiser’s army.
To visit the town, I left my motorhome next to the New British Cemetery although I appreciate that not everyone wants to sleep next to a cemetery. For those who do not want to do this, off street parking is no problem.
Passendale is located on a ridge which today is not particularly obvious because of the vegetation, however one can stand at the highest point of the town and imagine what it was like with the vegetation and buildings destroyed and when this ridge controlled the countryside around.
We can find various war cemeteries in and around Passendale. Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world (you can see this in another film).
Passendale is a farming community. One of its specialities is a cheese for which a festival is held every August. Another product is the Passchendaele beer which you can see advertisements for in the film. It is brewed by the Van Honsebrouck brewery in Ingelmunster which is around 10km further to the east.
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Ypres Belgium 2017
May 2017 cycling around Ypres and surrounding area visiting the battlefields ,including finding my great uncle Herbert Taylor 70622 in Tyne Cott cemetery who died in the WW1 on the 17 August 1917 With Joe Bell ,Stuart Bell and Gavin Wrobel
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Passchendale New Cemetery, Belgium
This film shows the Passchendaele New British Cemetery which is just over 10km north-east of Ieper on the S'Graventafelstraat, a road leading from St Jan to Passendale.
During my tour of Flanders, I arrived quite late at the cemetery and parked my motorhome and spent the nigh there. I know that this would bother some people, I don't believe in ghosts but even if I did, I can't see what harm they would do me. The film was made quite early in the rmorning.
This cemetery is on three different levels, with steps going from one level to another. For wheelchair access between the levels there are grassed ramps to the right of the cemetery, near the wall. Wheelchair users can enter the cemetery via a service entrance situated to the left of the main entrance.
The village of Passchendaele (Passendale in Flemish) is above all associated with the Third Battle of Ypres although it was close to the front throughout the war. It was captured by the Germans on 20 October 1914. At the end of the Third Battle of Ypres, it was taken by the Fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade on 6 November 1917. It was held by the Allies a little over five months when the Germans recaptured it only to change hands once more on 29 September 1918 when Belgian forces took the village.
The New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck. Almost all of the burials are from the autumn of 1917.
The cemetery now contains 2,101 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,600 of the graves are unidentified but there are special memorials to seven casualties believed to be buried among them.
The cemetery was designed by Charles Holden.
Belgium, the movie (subtitles: en, fr, nl)
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Visiting Flanders 100 years after the First World War!
This fall will mark 100 years from the end of the First World War and we go to visit one of the most significant areas to that war - Ypres in the Flanders region of Belgium! Check out the hotel, museums, cemeteries and restaurants that we visited and follow me on Instagram at to see photos of us in this area as well!
The New Regina hotel -
The In Flanders Field Museum -
The Essex Farm Cemetery -
De Oude Kaasmakerij (The Old Cheese Factory) -
The Passchendaele Memorial Museum -
The Tyne Cot Cemetery -
The Last Post at Menin Gate -
Les Halles Marktcafe -
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Scenic Road from Waterloo to Lasne, Belgium
This video was taken June 2011 on a trip back from the grocery store in Waterloo to my friends' house in Lasne, Belgium. Much like the excitement of the famous movie of the 7 minute trip through the streets of Paris, this video will possibly make you car sick in the beginning. However, it gives a great understanding of the countryside, and the quaint, rustic nature of the region. Come take a ride with us, listen to some French speaking DJs, and experience Belgium.
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