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A winter night in Flanders, nineteen fifteen going into nineteen sixteen. Behind the front line, soldiers drink strong tea, dry their socks, borrow books, sleep in old brick vaults and eventually find a warm bed of straw on a Belgian farm.
You don't need to make it all the way back from the trenches. Falling asleep somewhere along the road is exactly the idea.
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Tonight: we begin in a support trench near Wipers, among duckboards, sandbags, braziers and mugs of tea that taste faintly of petrol. From there, we move back through the old casemates beneath the town walls, then west toward Poperinge, where there are baths, cafés, eggs and chips, and the quiet rooms of Talbot House. At last, the road leads to a Flemish farm, a barn full of dry straw, and rain falling gently on the roof.
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