The final day was spent sightseeing in Bruges before returning home. The photographs for this day show the staff rather than the pupils, because most of the pupils decided to forego the pleasures of sightseeing in a medieval city, including seeing a Michaelangelo for the more immediate gratification of the retail therapy they had been denied for three days.

The first two photographs show the group being given an orientation in the square, before their rapid dispersal to Zara, H and M etc.

The next next five photographs show the sights seen by the staff, before they too gave in to the call of coffee, waffles and hot chocolate.

The final photograph, on the ferry home, shows an interloper, Helen Yarrow, former teacher at Harrogate Grammar School, and now Head of History at Abbey Grange CE School in Leeds, who was in Flanders at the same time, with a group from her new school, and who first introduced Battlefields Tours to us.

Our tour was organised by NST and led by Peter Crook. Our excellent coach driver was Stuart from Weardale Travel, and we stayed at the Munchenhof Hotel in Langemarck, where we were very well looked after by Hubert and Nathalie. Our thanks to all these people for making our stay so pleasant, and informative.