OSTEND & THE MENIN GATE

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City Tax €2.50 per night payable to the hotel

Return coach travel
Return ferry crossing
4 Days
Bed & Breakfast

* Visit to Antwerp
* Visit to Ypres & Menin Gate Memorial

After pickups we travel to Dover for our sailing to Calais.

On arrival in Calais we continue the journey to Ostend where we will be based for 3 nights.

After breakfast we travel to Antwerp also known as the Diamond centre of the world.

It retains an intriguing medieval heart with plenty of café-filled cobbled lanes, a riverside fortress and a truly impressive cathedral.

There will be free time to explore this lovely city.

We leave the hotel at lunchtime today and travel first to the Beautiful City of Bruges, known as the Venice of the North.

It boasts medieval buildings, cobbled streets, quaint canals and lots of shops selling the famous Belgian chocolates.

In the afternoon we travel to Ypres famous for the Menin Gate memorial.

This lovely town boasts a historic Cloth Hall, impressive Cathedral and medieval market square. The city is best known for what happened here a little over a hundred years ago. It is the unofficial capital of Flanders fields, site of numerous battles during the 1st World War. The "City of Peace" still commemorates these events daily, at the In Flanders Fields Museum and under its Menin Gate memorial.
Night after night at 8pm the Last Post sounds in tribute to the soldiers who fell, ensuring that we never forget this war.

Return back to the hotel after the ceremony.

After breakfast we leave the hotel to travel to Calais for our sailing to the UK.

On arrival in Dover, we continue the journey home.