Ypres, Belgium Hill 62 & In Flanders Fields Museum - Day 10 European Adventure @CzyzAdventures

It's hard to imagine suffering through the trench warfare of World War I. Hill 62 allows you to wander the trenches of soldiers past. Pretty sobering.

In Flounders Fields Museum does a fantastic job of documenting the war especially from a personal perspective. I loved their three-dimensional projections. The 231 step walk up the Cloth Tower belfry was well worth the view of the city below.

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Ypres, Belgium Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood Museum and Trenches
The In Flanders Fields Museum and Cloth Hall Belfry tower view of the city in Ypres, Belgium.

See the following video for the LAST POST CEREMONY held daily in Ypres, Belgium: @   • The Last Post at the Menin Gate Memor...  
See the following video for a tribute to John McCrae, the man that wrote "in Flanders Field", and Essex Cemetery where over 1200 World War I soldiers are commemorated: @   • In Flanders Fields Ypres, Belgium – D...  

Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:15 Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood Museum and Trenches
4:00 Hill 62 Canadian Memorial
4:20 Sanctuary Woods Cemetery
4:34 In Flanders Fields Museum & Cloth Hall Belfry Tower
9:37 Local orchestra in Ypres Square

Ypres, Belgium is best known for what happened a little over a hundred years ago. It is the unofficial capital of Flanders Fields, site of numerous battles during the First World War (1914 – 1918). The “City of Peace” still commemorates these events daily under its Menin Gate memorial. Night after night, promptly at 8pm, The Last Post sounds at the Menin Gate in tribute to the 250,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who fell, ensuring that we never forget this war.

The Canadian and British Armies primarily defended Hill 62 (Sanctuary Wood). There is a very impressive museum and trench network here as well as a Memorial to honor the Canadians that fought here. Trench life involved long periods of boredom mixed with brief periods of terror. The threat of death kept soldiers constantly on edge, while poor living conditions and a lack of sleep wore away at their health and stamina.

The In Flanders Fields Museum is a museum in Ypres (Ieper), Belgium, dedicated to the study of the First World War. It occupies the second floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) on the market square in the city centre. The building was largely destroyed by artillery during the war, but was afterwards reconstructed. In 1998 the original Ypres Salient Memorial Museum was refurbished and renamed In Flanders Fields Museum after the famous poem by Canadian John McCrae. Following a period of closure, the museum reopened on 11 June 2012. Be sure to pay the extra couple of euro's to climb the 231 steps up the belfry tower to get a fantastic view of the city.

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