Monday - we left our hotel in Brugges at 9:30 for our trip south west to Ypres and Passchendaele with a goal of seeing as much as we could and lasting until the 8:00 pm Last Post which is played every night at the Menin Gate in Ieper. The drive was easy and uneventful and we arrived in Iepers around 10:30 or so. We visited the tourist shoppe where we got a few maps and books and then went to the In Flanders Fields museum. The museum was a great starting point, it was interactive and very interesting. The museum is in the Clothe Hall, which had been completely bombed out by the Germans (and subsequently rebuilt) in the early days of the war. We then had a quick bite before heading out on our trek around the many sites of the Ypres Salient.
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