One of the most arresting sites in Ypres - apart from the superb Cloth Hall and The Menin Gate - are the houses around the square, with the vast majority displaying a year on their frontage - if I remember correctly it's 1922 - showing when the town centre was rebuilt. House after house after house. The town was virtually obliterated over the course of the many battle around there from 1914-1918. A chilling reminder. Brian Binns