Last Post Ceremony - Ypres

At 8pm every evening since the guns fell silent at the end of World War One, The Last Post has been sounded as Ypres becomes erily silent ... and remembers ...

War memories and The Last Post.

June 12th 2006
Day 10, 10th June. In Wissant near Calais Woke with massive hangover - no more beer! Urs took us on a car trip at noon to the secret cannon base at Mimoyecques built in WWII by the Germans. Twenty-five underground super-cannons which could reach London and were never used. They were designed as the V3 weapon which would have destroyed London! Later we went off to Bologne town for a walk abo ... read more

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