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A group of visiting teenagers being enlightened
about Hill 60
The Peoples Bank
in
Paris
The Ily Coffee Shop
in Amsterdam
Volunteers
at the
Melbourne 2006…
Hill 60
Tuesday-PC-Wk169-Hill
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Belgium’s Hill 60.
A fascinating battle ground of World War I.
I have often heard stories of soldiers from
the opposing forces having a chat across no-man’s land
At Hill 60 front lines were within a few metres of each other.
The reverse view.
From memory it is not a natural hill.
It was created by earth removal works
when the railway line
(mentioned in Wikipedia)
was constructed.
Hill 60 is a World War I battlefield
memorial site and park
in the Zwarteleen area of Zillebeke
south of Ypres, Belgium.
It is located about 4.6 kilometres (2.9 mi)
from the centre of Ypres and
directly on the railway line to Comines.
Source:
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_60_(Ypres)
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THURSDAY’S SPECIAL-October-Words-Yr3
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Words from all over.
And a bit late for October
I have never seen so much water flowing, or gushing,
over Hopkins Falls as there was in August 2017.
This is what I think of when I see the word aperture.
That little hole in the centre of a lens.
Frontier…a line or border separating two countries.
At Hill 60 in Belgium, the white line in the foreground
indicates the British front line.
Most of our group are in No Man’s Land,
however our tour guide is standing on Germany’s Front line.
Perhaps not triplets in the truest sense of the word,
however, it was the best I could do.
A ‘normal’ tapered building,
Burj Khalifa, in Dubai.
Normally I think of some that is tapered as being thinner
at the far end, usually the top.
Lochnagar Crater, on the Somme Battlefields,
is still thinner at the far end
it just happens to be the bottom
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Thursday’s Special: October Words-Yr3
Travel Theme-Warm
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My
Warm
Travel Theme.
In early June I set off on my tour of
Western Front WW I battlefields.
MGW was not interested,
hence it was a solo trip.
MGW was not all that happy to see my Facebook
posts with me in shorts and shirts sleeves
at her relative’s Fromelles grave.
The weather had turned cold Down Under.
The sun shone on the road to
Vlaanderen, in Belgium…
and continued to do so at
Hill 60…
the site of the Christmas Truce
at Prowse Point.
All in all one could not ask for
better weather while travelling.
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Where’s My Backpack: Warm
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Travel Theme-Behind
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My
Behind
Travel Theme.
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A few years ago while in Africa…
I developed a totally unfounded reputation of
being a tail-end Charlie.
Nothing has changed and this year,
at Hill 60, in Belgium, the only…
time I was in front (of the crowd) was when
I scrambled up this bunker to have my photo taken.
These days however, the ascent is far easier than the descent.
So by the time I had carefully descended from
my precarious position, most of the crowd
had reach our starting point again.
And yes, there I was back, bringing up the rear of
my fellow travellers and the next group
of school children to visit Hill 60.
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Where’s My Backpack: Behind
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