The Phoenix Singers warm up before singing at the Menin Gate: I did not take any photos during the performance because I wanted to concentrate on making an audio recording. I later incorporated this into a video which can be viewed here.
A wreath ready to be laid during the nightly ceremony at the Menin Gate
The vast bulk of the Menin Gate: every evening the road through is closed so that a ceremony of Remembrance can be held. The inscription above the main portal reads: "To the armies of the British Empire who stood here from 1914 to 1918 and to those of their dead who have no known grave"
Names engraved on a wall of the Menin Gate: over 50,000 dead who have no known graves are commemorated here
People still feel personal connections with the losses of over a century ago
Two days after the Phoenix Singers gave their performance, I returned to the Menin Gate on ANZAC day. I was struck by the large number of young people, many of them local, who attended
A First World War cemetery on the ramparts in Ieper
Known and unknown lie side by side at Tyne Cot Cemetery
The Phoenix Singers gave an outdoor performance at a very wet Tyne Cot Cemetery
In a day away from the battlefields we went on a trip to Brugge (Bruges) where we enjoyed taking part in a chocolate making workshop
I went for quantity rather than quality
An unexpected find: a harp museum, with concerts throughout the day
Band on tour! No hotel rooms were smashed up during our visit