Belgium

This is a (late) post about our trip to Belgium. I think most bloggers went on the trip, but I'm doing  post about it anyway. We spent a lot of the day in the coach, but luckily I don't get car/coach/sea/going backwards sick.  I would write more but I can't remember lots of things.

Trenches

• these were narrow so that people with long guns couldn't swing them round to shoot people.(although they could hold the guns above their heads and do so)
• the trenches were are so in a zig-zag arrangement, i.e. not straight, because if an enemy came into a trench they wouldn't be able to shoot people in the trenches in a straight line.

Graves

• The German graves were made from black marble (I think), and had eight people to a grave, although there was a mass grave in the middle
• In the other graveyard, everybody had their own grave

Hill 60

• I think this was occupied by Germans, but explosives were put under it, so when they went off the Germans panicked and the hill could be taken. 

The Museum

• Here, we got  card and found out information about the person on the card. My person came from Russia, had to wear a kilt, liked the war, made suicidal decisions and ended up missing. Isn't that nice?

I had lots of pictures but the camera won't connect to the computer, so I'll upload them later.