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Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)

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Posted: 16 Jan 2017

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Belgium Ypres (#0255)

Belgium Ypres (#0255)
From my hotel window in Ypres, Belgium (Ieper is the official French and Flemish name, but Ypres is used in English). I've a strong interest in how combat and combat-related deaths are memorialized and since Ypres was the center of some of the heaviest fighting for WWI, it is surrounded by cemeteries and memorials related to WWI. The older part of the city is the main tourist area and the main tourism is the WWI sites. Despite that seemingly melancholic quality, it was a delightful small town to visit.

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 slgwv
slgwv club
And, of course, English speakers tend to read Ypres as "Wipers"--as in the Tommies' battlefront newsletter! ("The Wipers Times.")
7 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to slgwv club
I always assumed that Ypres was French spelling and pronounced Eep!
7 years ago.

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