Day 20 Saturday 31/08 Ypres Belgium 20 deg Cloudy/Sunny - Enid here...Another day on the WW1 battlefields a round trip of 417km led us first north to Beaumont where the Canadian troops are remembered and the trenches are left as original and descriptions bring to life the area as it would have been. Then to Thiepval where the British-France memorial the largest in the world for all the unknown and missing soldiers over 72,000 names are displayed. The next tw...

Day 7 Sunday 18/08 Bruges - 20deg Sunny/cloudy John here...spending a full day in Bruges, lazy start. Wandered around town and went into several shops and were amazed at the choices, one pub had 300 beers, cookies of all sorts, nougat and of course chocolates of which there is no shortage. We decided on a boat trip of the canals, so queued for tickets and did the tour. Just before lunch overlooking the Markt we had a fruit beer at the...

Day 1&2 Monday 12/08 - 13/08 - London 21deg Sunny..... We left Amy and Maddie at the airport on a cold windy Melbourne afternoon and after a 23.5 hour flight on the Qantas A380 where we had great seats in the upper deck and with a short stopover in Dubai arrived on time at 5.30am to a sunny London to be met by Jen and Jon. We were so quick through customs etc, so different from our last landing. It was lovely to see them and both looking very well and happy ...

Day 6 Saturday 17/08 Brussels > Bruges - 20deg Sunny John here...today we caught the metro to Central station, and took the Hop-On/Hop-Off bus tour. Our impression of Brussels as a city is that it reminded us of Prague and Buenos Aries, in terms of its architecture, planning and style. We did the full circuit and then went into the main town centre to find the sculpture of Manneken Pis...or Little Boy Peeing. What a letdown, this kid...