Visit to Ypres 2013

Background information: Ypres is a city in the very western part of Belgium, that was greatly effected by World War 1. It has many tourist attractions for example chocolate factory's, museums and cemetery's.

History: German and British soldiers fought in trenches and many died, their graves are now in cemetery's in Ypres. After the war, Ypres was rebuilt making it more modern and including several museums.


Every night at 8:00pm there is a service at the Menin Gate, where people from around the world go and remember all of the soldiers that died in world war 1, that have an unknown grave. This service is very moving because you can see thousands of names of the soldiers that have unknown graves. Ypres also has many cemetery's that you can visit to see how many British soldiers died and fought in the war.

Tourist attractions: As-well as the war attractions, Ypres has many local restaurants, hotels, Belgium Chocolate shops and chocolate factory's.  

Travel directions: From the UK, the easiest root to Ypres is by ferry from Dover to Calais and then drive for approximately 1 hour 30 minutes to Ypres.

  M.H