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Little sarcastic or cruel: a funpark near Ieper
Pavlik_NL Says: Near Zillebeke along the Meenseweg is the funpark "Bellewaerde". This rather old park contains of a few rollercoasters and other attractions that could give you a ride of a livetime, but ... I keep wonder if these fields of destruction are a place for such park. Not that one...
Pavlik_NL Says: At Hill 60 the circle of Zillebeke is round. On tour of the "In Flanders Fields" car route one will turn now in the direction of the higher hills near the French border and after that towards Poperinge, further away from the frontline parts that are filled with cemetries and...
Perth cemetry, moving the death
Pavlik_NL Says: Perth Cemetry, just against the first houses of the village Zillebeke itself has a special part. The cemetry was already longer there, but got a group of moving death extra in the years after the war. This party of 33 fallen allied soldiers was burried in Poelkapelle on the...
Hill 60, tunneling coy memorial
Pavlik_NL Says: At the railroad near Hill 60 is a special memorial for the 1st Australian tunneling coy. As you can imagine, fighting above ground had the risk of being shot any second of the day (and night. The tunneling coys however had another danger and this group of Australian were...
Hill 60 another hill of dead corpses
Pavlik_NL Says: Hill 60 is just on the other side of the Eastern slopes of Zillebeke. Another hill of strategic importance to either sides and so another place of dramatic victims in a tragic battle lasting four long years. After the hills were almost all fallen into German hands, the...
Zillebeke in Flanders, a devote area
Pavlik_NL Says: Along the road through the village one will see them. If it is because of the war, or just because it always has been like this. In and around Zillebeke, as much as in and around every Flanders countryside village or town, there are small chaples and crosses placed at...
Hill 62, the Canadian memorial steps
Pavlik_NL Says: For the Canadians Hill 62 was one of their battlegrounds. Here many of them fell and like in all frontline parts here too many of them fell "nameless". Almost half a million men were killed in and around the Ypres Saillant and almost half of them do not have a grave in...
Hill 62 museum and authentic tranches
Pavlik_NL Says: From the cemetry one rises up to the top of the hill (not that high by the way). Next you will pass the Hill 62 museum, where in the forest behind it one can see authentic parts of the immens tranche-system that was covering the Western Front from the Swiss border to the...
Hill 62, a Canadian-German battle ground
Pavlik_NL Says: Here at Hill 62, just a kilometer from the Meenseweg, a Canadian detachment was covering the frontline. As said before, hills were of strategic importnace and were heavily fought over. Hill 62 saw tragic batlles in which the hilltop was changing sides several times, but...
The cemetry itself on 't Hooge
Pavlik_NL Says: Where ever you drive in the Ieper Saillant you will see them: the cemetries! Silent but intensive reminders of what happened here. Not stopping at a few is ignorance to the past. Stopping at all of them is hardly possible. There are 147 of them in a wide curve around Ieper....
Pavlik_NL Says: Next to hotel "Kasteelhof 't Hooghe" in the direction of Ieper is the museum "'t Hooghe Crater". This privately owned and run museum offers a (somewhat messy) collection of war items. Shells, gasmasks, uniforms, guns and an enormous amount of pictures. Some diorama's show...
Restaurant and tearoom Kasteelhof 't Hooghe: Restaurant at the hotel
Pavlik_NL Says: The restaurant annex tearoom of the hotel kasteelhof 't Hooghe serves wonderful Bourgondian dishes in a beautiful room of the building. The cosy atmosphere and the deliscious food make one feel at home even more. Provided in the room are also a selction of historical books...
Chinees Restaurant Fine Eastern: Oriental food on Bourgondian soil
Pavlik_NL Says: This restaurant is on 't Hooge across the entrance of the "Bellewaerde" funpark. It serves fine Chinese dishes in a quite atmosphere.
Pavlik_NL Says: Zillebeke is one of many stops along the "In Flanders Fields" car route. This 82 kilometers long drive through and around Ieper shows all mayor sites that are connected to the fierce battles around here in between 1914 and 1918. It is available through internet on the...
Pavlik_NL Says: Beer, Belgian is famous for it. Hunderds of different variants and almost all of them are deliscious and better then any other beers in the world. On the basis of beer is hop and therefor it will surprise you that this little plant is only grown in the surroundings of...
Civilians, the ones who suffered most
Pavlik_NL Says: In the battles that took place around Ieper one almost forgets what the civilians that lived in these parts had to go through. They lost everything they owned, just because two fanatic parts of the world decided to colide in their backyard. The few that stayed, often were...
Pavlik_NL Says: With 147 cemetries surrounding Ieper many smaller ones are often forgotten. Of course people who have lost a loved one that is burried here (grandfather or distant familymember) come to visit them, but we should also pay tribute to them. Let them not be forgotten and agree...
Pavlik_NL Says: In your search for Great War history one should almost forget the village itself. The Flanders village Zillebeke is actually like all others, but suffered tremendously under the 1914-1918 battles in it's surroundings. Of the villages buildings nothing was left after again...
Pavlik_NL Says: The Great War of 1914-1918 was called by many that fanatically threw themselves into the tranches that became their graves, the "War to end all wars". Let all who believe that violence, fighting or war ever could make an end to itself come to Ieper and visit the memorials,...
WW 1 history of Zillebeke and t Hooge
Pavlik_NL Says: The small village 't Hooge and the little larger Zillebeke, astride the Meense weg (Menin Road) just outside of Ieper (Ypres) were a valuable price in the Great War of 1914-1918. Day after day for over four years long the fighting raged backwards and forwards over only 300...
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This restaurant is on 't Hooge across the entrance of the "Bellewaerde" funpark. It serves fine Chinese dishes in a quite atmosphere.
Q: Can you please advise where 2 large coaches/buses can park in Zillebeke. I have a large party of school children who wish to visit...
A: Zillebeke is a small town with not too much traffic. Park the busses will be easy in the centre.If you want to park for the whole day i suggesst to park in the...
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Zillebeke and it's "road to hell"
Finally I had my chance to see "Ieper" and it's battlefields in South-Western Flanders. For my work I had to attend to a bourse in nearby Roeselare and as the organisation was in my hands I stayed...
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