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gemarriott
Guest
Just back after a weekend at and around Laarparts.
Sad to see the old place fraying at the seams but pretty pleasing to see it rising from the ashes in the form of a regional airport. Seemed strange sitting in departures in the exact same place that the small arms section of the armoury was. The old ASF hangar looks very different but if you look traces remain, especially upstairs where the armoury guard bunk was and in the ceiling.
Great views of SSA and Q Has's too.
Sad to see the neglect of the guardroom, and domestic sites abd XV's Has site was pretty wrecked. Nice little museum in the old church and SHQ complex still intact.
Off camp I was devastated to see no more Berlinner strasse flats gone to be replaced by a Warren of new cheap houses, Even worse was the flats on Stettiner Strasse where I lived, now occupied by asslyum seekers and looking like they had never had their windows cleaned. Magdeburger strasse was overgown all the neat little verges and bushes ruined. Weeezwe itself was still pretty much as always though the roads are different. No mor Mammas, the bahnhof has changed no bar but at least the Alt Weeze and Jagerhof are still there.
The real jewel though is Kevelaer where we lived the first year of our tour. Apart from the Balkan closing it is almost exactly the same. My little local still had the same furniture, and several marks were made on my bier mat. Yaeger acnitzel, Zigeuner schnitzel, ommes, currywurst, underberg, jagermeister.................................................
Side note flew Ryan Air, great trip for the money £22 including tax for 2 of us
Sad to see the old place fraying at the seams but pretty pleasing to see it rising from the ashes in the form of a regional airport. Seemed strange sitting in departures in the exact same place that the small arms section of the armoury was. The old ASF hangar looks very different but if you look traces remain, especially upstairs where the armoury guard bunk was and in the ceiling.
Great views of SSA and Q Has's too.
Sad to see the neglect of the guardroom, and domestic sites abd XV's Has site was pretty wrecked. Nice little museum in the old church and SHQ complex still intact.
Off camp I was devastated to see no more Berlinner strasse flats gone to be replaced by a Warren of new cheap houses, Even worse was the flats on Stettiner Strasse where I lived, now occupied by asslyum seekers and looking like they had never had their windows cleaned. Magdeburger strasse was overgown all the neat little verges and bushes ruined. Weeezwe itself was still pretty much as always though the roads are different. No mor Mammas, the bahnhof has changed no bar but at least the Alt Weeze and Jagerhof are still there.
The real jewel though is Kevelaer where we lived the first year of our tour. Apart from the Balkan closing it is almost exactly the same. My little local still had the same furniture, and several marks were made on my bier mat. Yaeger acnitzel, Zigeuner schnitzel, ommes, currywurst, underberg, jagermeister.................................................
Side note flew Ryan Air, great trip for the money £22 including tax for 2 of us
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