Devall Travels

Entry to the stadium is with an e-ticket. Having read up on it I spent my lunch hour getting my Ticketmaster US login to sync with a new Orlando City login. Then I could view the tickets. These are by QR code on my phone. On the day they need to be shown and so the LionNation app needed to be downloaded. This uses a different login to the ones above and links to them. Now I can see the QR codes but they are greyed out until 72 hours before the game. It's early but my attention will next be turned to parking. ...

Today we got up early and went out for a shortish trip across the Thames to Essex and the 14-18 War commemoration. Reggie included. It's about 90 miles each way. Shoeburyness was one of the Ministry of Defence bases along that stretch of the coast. Troops embarked from here to go to France during WW1. The poppies are all hand made and planted here to show like a wave. Other places have different displays like in Derby the poppies flow from a window like a flood of water.

Google Photo Creation Amazing what can be done with very little effort.

We have the dog booked into his favourite kennels for the duration of this weekend away. He goes in there late afternoon on Saturday. We have a dog-free evening. I had thought of going over then but finding a hotel or even a youth hostel in Belgium is like finding that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Unless you have that gold of course. So back to Plan A. Plan A had alwaya been to cross over on Sunday morning and head generally towards Ypres.  There's a few places I'd like to see again plus some new (to me) sites. Then see what parking is like in Ypres. There's a special ceremony in the Market by the Cloth Hall. It may be that as Plan A dictates that we go to Vlamertinge to the B&B and back out by taxi, we stick to it. Monday morning we have to be in Zonnebeke to park and see the museum and displays there. We have been before a few years ago. It was pre- Meldrews  so must have been the other club we don't mention. On that visit we had to park in the...

Sadly the lack of wifi for most of the trip meant I was unable to keep posting and so instead here's a summary and a few pictures will be added later. Day 1 Part 2 In the end they loaded us on a train and then announced that it had a problem and was being fixed? Why you have to ask do they load a train that has problems? In the end we arrived in France 75 minutes later than planned. That meant that we missed lunch and instead carried on a bit further. We stopped at Baie de la Somme again and Reggie had a walk about and his usual widdle stops and we had a coffee. Progress along the Paris avoidance route was successful but it was gone 7pm before we rolled up at the Campanile near Orléans.  In time to check in and give Reggie his late dinner before he and us went for ours. We opted for the buffet and Reggie lay under the table. Amazingly dog friendly.  Day 2 Up and away quite early after breakfast.  The plan to ...