The oil drum reconstruction near the death trenches at Diksmuide are interesting even though they are just a metal frame. Part of the stories of the trench.
I've done three trips privalged by an opportunity Goondiwindi State High School used to provide its students in our community. What a great job you have done young fella!
Is this showing the very town center of Ypres , where is best place to stay to see all the places in your video i.e death trench , menin gate , hill 60 , passcheandale museum and in Flanders fields museum and the town squares for bakery and restaurant etc please ?
Nice video👏👏 Visiting Ypres in April, with some of the places you visited are on my list… Looking forward to going to many really poignant sites, hopefully the weather is as good as it was for you..☀😁 Thanks for the tour👍
Thank you! I hope you will have a great time in Ypres! Although the weather isn’t great in Belgium so far, in the last years we always had some nice sunny days in April, so I hope you are lucky! 😃
yep every single building was gone, nothing was intact, the people there fought to both have it reconstructed (churchill and many brittish leaders considdered it holy ground and in fact wanted to aquire the site to be an open air mausoleum and wished for the ruined city to be preserved in that state( had that happened i would have likely celebrated it as it would be a uniqum in it's own right)) and to make sure it was reconstructed to it's pre 1914 state (there were a lot of people (not ypres people) that saw it as a chance to build a "modern" city, i have seen the artwork it was terrible, a 1914 vision of modern square concrete box houses) it would have been cool had it both been preserved as a ruine and had the entire city been copied as accurately as possible right next to it, but that would have been insanely expensive, the reconstruction allready took around 50 years, and German reperations would likely not be enough, then again, considdering the scale of destruction building everything new wouldn't be that much more expensive in terms of manpower, machinery, time, only construction materials and in that regard i believe both Flemish (Belgian at least), German (as both a symbolic tie and a way for the German economy to at least get some benefit out of reperations), commonwealth (for the strong ties between all factions) French (because they have ties to the city as well, especially the 18th century fortifications which did withstand the bombardment and provided safety for Brittish and commonwealth command and media HQ's) and for good measure American (because they did essentially break the tie, (the Germans and austrians, (even turks) were free at the eastern front which meant a large influx of experienced troops and equipment) it would have made ypres into the true city of peace and have symbolically bound the city to all major combattants that fought in the ypres salient, the public and religious buildings should in this case also have been decorated with artwork refering to the war, the reconstruction and all combattants, who knows in this case old ypres would perhaps have become the equivalent of the menin gate and new ypres could have been given gates dedicated to each country involved, dedicated to each of them essentially it would have been awesome had the city been rebuilt as it was as a new city next to the ruines of old ypres and all this as a multi nation push for peace hey maybe if this had happened and for instance had German soldiers been put to work in these works alongside Flemings and volunteers , who knows, Hitler himself fought in Ypres and he was hardened in large part due to the end of the war, he might have had a different outlook from it, all this is extremely far fetched but Ypres is indeed amazing oh yeah and two buildings were based on the Ypres cloth hall the high court of Calcutta (kolkatta) the Suny railway or postal building (USA)
Belgians are born "with a brick in their stomach". After the war everything was rebuilt stone by stone. Cheating a little as the city looks more ancient (medieval) today than it did before WW1.
yep every single building was gone, nothing was intact, the people there fought to both have it reconstructed (churchill and many brittish leaders considdered it holy ground and in fact wanted to aquire the site to be an open air mausoleum and wished for the ruined city to be preserved in that state( had that happened i would have likely celebrated it as it would be a uniqum in it's own right)) and to make sure it was reconstructed to it's pre 1914 state (there were a lot of people (not ypres people) that saw it as a chance to build a "modern" city, i have seen the artwork it was terrible, a 1914 vision of modern square concrete box houses) it would have been cool had it both been preserved as a ruine and had the entire city been copied as accurately as possible right next to it, but that would have been insanely expensive, the reconstruction allready took around 50 years, and German reperations would likely not be enough, then again, considdering the scale of destruction building everything new wouldn't be that much more expensive in terms of manpower, machinery, time, only construction materials and in that regard i believe both Flemish (Belgian at least), German (as both a symbolic tie and a way for the German economy to at least get some benefit out of reperations), commonwealth (for the strong ties between all factions) French (because they have ties to the city as well, especially the 18th century fortifications which did withstand the bombardment and provided safety for Brittish and commonwealth command and media HQ's) and for good measure American (because they did essentially break the tie, (the Germans and austrians, (even turks) were free at the eastern front which meant a large influx of experienced troops and equipment) it would have made ypres into the true city of peace and have symbolically bound the city to all major combattants that fought in the ypres salient, the public and religious buildings should in this case also have been decorated with artwork refering to the war, the reconstruction and all combattants, who knows in this case old ypres would perhaps have become the equivalent of the menin gate and new ypres could have been given gates dedicated to each country involved, dedicated to each of them essentially it would have been awesome had the city been rebuilt as it was as a new city next to the ruines of old ypres and all this as a multi nation push for peace hey maybe if this had happened and for instance had German soldiers been put to work in these works alongside Flemings and volunteers , who knows, Hitler himself fought in Ypres and he was hardened in large part due to the end of the war, he might have had a different outlook from it, all this is extremely far fetched but Ypres is indeed amazing oh yeah and two buildings were based on the Ypres cloth hall the high court of Calcutta (kolkatta) the Suny railway or postal building (USA)
The death trenches aren’t fully accessible. not sure bout they Yser tower and museum which is also worth a visit. The Menin gate at the moment t is being repaired but should be OK in a wheelchair
Belgium is so incredibly interesting and beautiful!
As a person who grown up in Ypres we are Honored to have People from other Countrys Visit our city
Beautiful. I have been to Ieper many times as I have friends there as well as in Kortrijk. Have been to Diksmuide, all the crematory of World war!
Beautifully shot. Thank you!!
Again an impressive vlog! 😘
The oil drum reconstruction near the death trenches at Diksmuide are interesting even though they are just a metal frame. Part of the stories of the trench.
Made a twilight visit to Tyne Cot in 1993 I was the only person there just me and the 12000 lost souls surely the most moving experience of my life
So Informative. Thanks very much.
I've done three trips privalged by an opportunity Goondiwindi State High School used to provide its students in our community. What a great job you have done young fella!
Thank you for the nice comment! 😊
Is this showing the very town center of Ypres , where is best place to stay to see all the places in your video i.e death trench , menin gate , hill 60 , passcheandale museum and in Flanders fields museum and the town squares for bakery and restaurant etc please ?
Thanks, Mate. Good job. We're going there soon.
Thank you! 😃 and have a nice trip!
Nice video👏👏
Visiting Ypres in April, with some of the places you visited are on my list… Looking forward to going to many really poignant sites, hopefully the weather is as good as it was for you..☀😁
Thanks for the tour👍
Thank you! I hope you will have a great time in Ypres! Although the weather isn’t great in Belgium so far, in the last years we always had some nice sunny days in April, so I hope you are lucky! 😃
Fantastic vid, so interesting.
Thank you! 🙏🏼
yep every single building was gone, nothing was intact, the people there fought to both have it reconstructed (churchill and many brittish leaders considdered it holy ground and in fact wanted to aquire the site to be an open air mausoleum and wished for the ruined city to be preserved in that state( had that happened i would have likely celebrated it as it would be a uniqum in it's own right)) and to make sure it was reconstructed to it's pre 1914 state (there were a lot of people (not ypres people) that saw it as a chance to build a "modern" city, i have seen the artwork it was terrible, a 1914 vision of modern square concrete box houses)
it would have been cool had it both been preserved as a ruine and had the entire city been copied as accurately as possible right next to it, but that would have been insanely expensive, the reconstruction allready took around 50 years, and German reperations would likely not be enough, then again, considdering the scale of destruction building everything new wouldn't be that much more expensive in terms of manpower, machinery, time, only construction materials and in that regard i believe both Flemish (Belgian at least), German (as both a symbolic tie and a way for the German economy to at least get some benefit out of reperations), commonwealth (for the strong ties between all factions) French (because they have ties to the city as well, especially the 18th century fortifications which did withstand the bombardment and provided safety for Brittish and commonwealth command and media HQ's) and for good measure American (because they did essentially break the tie, (the Germans and austrians, (even turks) were free at the eastern front which meant a large influx of experienced troops and equipment)
it would have made ypres into the true city of peace and have symbolically bound the city to all major combattants that fought in the ypres salient, the public and religious buildings should in this case also have been decorated with artwork refering to the war, the reconstruction and all combattants, who knows in this case old ypres would perhaps have become the equivalent of the menin gate and new ypres could have been given gates dedicated to each country involved, dedicated to each of them
essentially it would have been awesome had the city been rebuilt as it was as a new city next to the ruines of old ypres and all this as a multi nation push for peace
hey maybe if this had happened and for instance had German soldiers been put to work in these works alongside Flemings and volunteers , who knows, Hitler himself fought in Ypres and he was hardened in large part due to the end of the war, he might have had a different outlook from it,
all this is extremely far fetched but Ypres is indeed amazing
oh yeah and two buildings were based on the Ypres cloth hall
the high court of Calcutta (kolkatta)
the Suny railway or postal building (USA)
Music is wholly inappropriate for touring the trenches and memorial grounds.
I so agree😮
Ypres was almost erased from the map, i saw the aftermath pictures o_o
Belgians are born "with a brick in their stomach". After the war everything was rebuilt stone by stone. Cheating a little as the city looks more ancient (medieval) today than it did before WW1.
yep every single building was gone, nothing was intact, the people there fought to both have it reconstructed (churchill and many brittish leaders considdered it holy ground and in fact wanted to aquire the site to be an open air mausoleum and wished for the ruined city to be preserved in that state( had that happened i would have likely celebrated it as it would be a uniqum in it's own right)) and to make sure it was reconstructed to it's pre 1914 state (there were a lot of people (not ypres people) that saw it as a chance to build a "modern" city, i have seen the artwork it was terrible, a 1914 vision of modern square concrete box houses)
it would have been cool had it both been preserved as a ruine and had the entire city been copied as accurately as possible right next to it, but that would have been insanely expensive, the reconstruction allready took around 50 years, and German reperations would likely not be enough, then again, considdering the scale of destruction building everything new wouldn't be that much more expensive in terms of manpower, machinery, time, only construction materials and in that regard i believe both Flemish (Belgian at least), German (as both a symbolic tie and a way for the German economy to at least get some benefit out of reperations), commonwealth (for the strong ties between all factions) French (because they have ties to the city as well, especially the 18th century fortifications which did withstand the bombardment and provided safety for Brittish and commonwealth command and media HQ's) and for good measure American (because they did essentially break the tie, (the Germans and austrians, (even turks) were free at the eastern front which meant a large influx of experienced troops and equipment)
it would have made ypres into the true city of peace and have symbolically bound the city to all major combattants that fought in the ypres salient, the public and religious buildings should in this case also have been decorated with artwork refering to the war, the reconstruction and all combattants, who knows in this case old ypres would perhaps have become the equivalent of the menin gate and new ypres could have been given gates dedicated to each country involved, dedicated to each of them
essentially it would have been awesome had the city been rebuilt as it was as a new city next to the ruines of old ypres and all this as a multi nation push for peace
hey maybe if this had happened and for instance had German soldiers been put to work in these works alongside Flemings and volunteers , who knows, Hitler himself fought in Ypres and he was hardened in large part due to the end of the war, he might have had a different outlook from it,
all this is extremely far fetched but Ypres is indeed amazing
oh yeah and two buildings were based on the Ypres cloth hall
the high court of Calcutta (kolkatta)
the Suny railway or postal building (USA)
is it possible to visit this places by wheelchairwith helpfrom my friend/wife.......respect to all, thanks answering
The death trenches aren’t fully accessible. not sure bout they Yser tower and museum which is also worth a visit. The Menin gate at the moment t is being repaired but should be OK in a wheelchair