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Home safely from Belgium.

We made it safely home with only a couple of hiccoughs. Everybody safe and healthy but rather sleepy. Facebook posts suggest that some of the scouts stayed home today but hey! I was in work at 8.30 today so no sympathy here 🙂

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Obviously we discussed leaving him behind...

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Watching an artist while we ate our chips

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The world's most expensive bag of chocolates!

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Posh choc shopping

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Window shopping

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Scouts + chocolate = smiles

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5kg of Nutella

We could get used to this

So we come downstairs and breakfast is laid out for us…

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Muesli, cocopops or gold nugget thingimies

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Nuttella, jam. Butter, honey or two types of cheese

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Milk (fresh, not uht) choco milk, orange juice and bottled water

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Fresh crusty bread

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Espresso, normal coffee, tea and hot chocolate

Perfect for a chilly day in Bruges but first we will pop up to the In Flanders Field museum

End of the first day in Belgium

We’ve had a brilliant first day, here’s the update from after lunch:

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We explored Tune Cot

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And we laid a wreath.

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We laid a wreath at Langemark German Cemetry

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John talked to the scouts about the Menin Gate

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Chips for dinner

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With a waffle pudding

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Time to buy some chocolate

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Ypres looks beautiful

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The Christmas Market was ... Christmassy

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And we've finished the evening.with a beer in the hotel

And we’re in Bruges tomorrow

War graves trip lunchtime

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We stopped here first

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And they explored the trenches

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The girls had time to pose

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And now we've stopped for lunch at hill 62

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