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 Post subject: Belgium Calling
PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:26 pm 
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Hello everybody, I hope everybody is well, having a super time, we are being waited on hand and foot.
We have been to my fathers grave in Ostend, and to Ghent for the day, also on Sunday to a town called Leuven which has the oldest and largest Catholic university in the world dated from 1425, still being used today. I have taken a lot of photographs to show you, some interesting wildlife,but mostly architecture, roofscapes (we are on the 7th floor) and landscapes. We spent today walking round locally, round some big lakes and a tour of a really old monastery which is actually built around and joined to a church, all not used but being well looked after. Take care everybody, back home about Monday.

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 Post subject: Re: Belgium Calling
PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:24 pm 
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:D Can't wait.

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 Post subject: Re: Belgium Calling
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 Post subject: Re: Belgium Calling
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Glad you are having a good time Arfa. The day you get back, we go to Turkey :multi: see you in 3 weeks then I guess.


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 Post subject: Re: Belgium Calling
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Took a trip to the Belgian Royal family's palace, the one which is their residence for most the year. Once a year they have an open month for the public to visit their greenhouses. They charge 2.50 euros which is given to charity. We went on Monday and couldn't get in, it was packed, so we went today the day we had planned to go to the African museum. Boy what a spectacular display of plants, I have some photographs about a 100 in all.

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 Post subject: Re: Belgium Calling
PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:07 pm 
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Well here we go then, obviously I can't show you all the pictures, so what I have done is picked a few from each area visited but will promise to show more of the royal greenhouses which for me along with the Villers Abbey was the highlights..
I will remove most of the pictures after 1 week so as not to over cram the forum.

The first picture is of one of the lakes we walked round on our first morning when I took a picture of the ducks.

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Round the lake I spotted this monument with the names of the people who made Belgium what it is to day when they were in the Belgian Congo

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Ostend on the next day to visit my fathers grave.

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I thought you might be interested in this picture, it is of a row of watercans that you have to put money in the slot to use.

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Whilst we were looking at my fathers grave this big bird flew over and frightened us to death.

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This is the cabinet in the wall where I leave a message of thanks each visit.

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I just had to take a picture of this gentleman's grave, it depicts him carving the gravestones of the Belgian people who died in the last war

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My next pictures will be of Ghent which we visited on the way back from Ostend.

Arfa

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 Post subject: Re: Belgium Calling
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Can't wait,
me timbers are shivered,
so happy to share this journey with thee Arfa,
Lynn-I'll be in Turkey with you too-
we are never parted.

how I love you all,
linnyx


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 Post subject: Re: Belgium Calling
PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 5:22 pm 
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I didn't know where Ghent was when we took the poem "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" in school. Never liked the poem because they rode the horses to death.


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