Hill 62 (Sanctuary Wood) Canadian Memorial — Attraction in Ypres

Battlefield 1 is a World War I game where you run around like a caffeinated goat with a bayonet, screaming through mustard gas while being sniped by a guy hiding in a bush three continents away; you can ride horses with swords like a medieval maniac, drive tanks that handle like angry refrigerators, or fly planes that explode if you sneeze wrong—there are four classes but they all boil down to shooting, exploding, reviving, or lying down forever with a sniper rifle; melee weapons include shovels, clubs, and whatever rusty stick you found behind a trench; every map is designed to make you cry, including deserts with snipers in the sun, forests where trees throw grenades, and cities that explode if you breathe near them; sound design is so intense you’ll hear explosions in your dreams, and the graphics are so realistic that mud looks better than your kitchen floor; sometimes a blimp crashes onto your squad and everyone just accepts it as fate; sometimes you throw a grenade and it bounces back and ends your bloodline; customization is almost non-existent unless you really like brown, but none of it matters because your real weapon is chaos; victory is random, death is hilarious, and every match ends with someone yelling while riding a horse off a cliff into a tank that’s already on fire; Battlefield 1 is not a game—it’s a historical fever dream with great lighting and more screaming than a haunted amusement park, and that’s why we love it. Anyway, I like WW1 and this...

Hill 62 is about 12 minutes drive from Ypres., well worth visiting there's a small cafe and a small museum, then when you go outside we'll you do go back in time, there are trenches, bomb holes, to walk through we went in September in the afternoon only a few people there, time spent 1to2hours, then from there we found the bomb crater that's...

Turned up way before 5pm to find it all closed up. We were told it closed at 5pm. We said it's not 5 yet and the reply was you would only have 10 minutes to look. We said we had been here at least 10 mins already and could have been in to look. The lady just shrugged. It's a poor show for people who have travelled so far to see...