Today started at Lijssenthoek, which is the largest cemetery in Belgium. This is because it sits next to one of the large field hospitals. Apparently they used the large farmers sheds as the main operating area and these are still in use today for farming. This cemetery also houses some of the few American graves as most of the US troops killed during the war were burried  back in the US. As you walk to the entrance of the cemetery you pass by a very effective s...

Final stop for the day was Talbot House in Poperinge. This was a all ranks hospice set up by Chaplan Philip "Tubby" Clayton and provided an escape for all soldiers for most of the war. Somewhere else to go rather than bars and the red light districts. Again a very simple but effective museum and it was very humbling to have tea in the same place and manner has hundreds of thousands of allied soldiers bit all those years ago. The house itself is still used by trav...