Forbidden Spaces in Chateau Chaumont
When you tour a historical building, do you ever wonder about the rooms they’re not showing you? I do! My ruminations about Chateau Chaumont.
Western Europe
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Arromanches 360 circular cinema: A review
My oh-so-laconic son, on exiting Arromanches 360 circular cinema, which depicts the D-Day invasion, remarked, “Even I found this one moving,”
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The Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy: A review
A not-very-favorable review of the Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy in Bayeux, France, with other ideas for learning about D-Day.
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War graves in Belgium: Living among the dead
With so many Belgium war graves, memorials, monuments, trenches and museums in the Ypres Salient, it’s as if the locals live among the dead.
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How NOT to design a bathroom!
We ate lunch yesterday at a café in Gent. Afterwards, I went inside to use the toilet, followed the signs upstairs, came around a corner, and saw this.
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In Flanders Fields Museum: A review
The In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium, is one of the most effective museums I’ve ever been to. It focuses on WWI in the Ypres Salient. Read my review here.
