The bloody Grote Oorlog ended in Ostend on October 18, 1918, and when, the day after ‘the liberation’, Koning Albert I and Koningin Elisabeth officially take possession of Ostend again, they find a heavily battered but not fatally hit seaside resort. However, the financial situation of the city treasury looks dismal and tourism must be put back on track quickly. Go together with the guide from Gidsenkring Lange Nelle in search of traces of this past.