Flanders Day Trip - April 30th 2006

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There were six of us on the Flanders Day trip. We went across country to Poperinge (twinned with Hythe where I live) and then Ypres.

Nigel and Jane Jones, John Bentall and his wife Anne, and Claire and me.

This was the trip that got us intereste din days and then weekends away on the bike as a small group, derawn from the IMTC and SOC locally.

THe pics are from Talbot House in Poperinge and of the Menin Gate in Ypres


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