Tripping - Flanders Fields

Our last stop on our trip was Flanders Fields in Belgium. We stayed in Kortrijk about 30 kilometres from our destination, Iepes (Ypres). We arrived around 5:00 p.m. in Kortrijk, which seemed to be like a bit of a ghost town. We found out later that evening that it was the national holiday, similar to Canada Day. Everyone was taking a holiday, however we found some restaurants in the city centrum and enjoyed some sunshine and people watching.

The next morning we headed out to Ieper for a few hours of sightseeing. Ieper is a stunning little city, once known as "Little Paris". We visited the Mennin Gate, Flanders Fields Museum about the first world war, war cemeteries including the one where John McCrae wrote the famous, In Flanders Field poem. We returned home to Leeuwarden the same evening.