So yesterday was ANZAC day in France, I celebrated by going to a memorial in Belgium. I stayed at a friends house the night before and then we got picked up by a Rotarian at 4 am. It was my first time going to Belgium, so it was pretty cool. We were in the Dutch region of Belgium, but pretty much everyone there spoke English because most of them were Australians. The first dawn service started at 5:30 and went for about an hour. It was really good, there were heaps of people gathered at one of the cemeteries where many unnamed Australians and New Zealanders were buried. It was so so so cold, but I managed. After the first dawn service we took a bus back to get breakfast with the whole group (people from all over Australia and New Zealand). We met Brendan Nelson, who is now the Australian ambassador for Belgium, he was really nice. After breakfast we had another dawn service at Flanders Fields, which was also really good, but also really cold. We then headed back for France and had lunch along the way. When we got home I had a few friends over and one of my friends bought Anzac biscuits with them and they were amazing!
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