Belgium 2015 - Day 5 and 6 - Ypres - Around Town

Before and after the ceremony at the Menin Gate, and the next morning we wandered around the town of  (Leper) Ypres. Here are some shots from around the town.

This is the Ypres Cloth Hall on the market square in the centre of Ypres, Belgium. On the second floor is the In Flanders' Fields Museum. Unfortunately when I took this it was closed and we didn't have time the following morning to go in.

This is the square looking back towards town

Some Chocolate in the shop windows.

Chocolate tools and stuff

Interesting what you see in the shop windows

Some street shots

Looking up the street towards the Menin Gate

St Martin's Cathedral (Dutch: Sint-Maartenskathedraal), also called St Martin's Church (Dutch: Sint-Maartenskerk), is a church and former cathedral in the Belgian city of Ypres. It was a cathedral and the seat of the former diocese of Ypres from 1561 to 1801, and is still commonly referred to as such. At 102 metres (335 ft) tall, it is among the tallest buildings in Belgium (Wikipedia).

The Menin Gate from the outside of town




And that's the end of our World War I odyssey.  Now we're heading back to France for some other, non war related, stuff.